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Juvenile arthritis

Tofacitinib approved for arthritis treatment in children

Brian Owens · October 23, 2020 ·

On Sept 28, 2020, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Pfizer’s targeted synthetic drug tofacitinib (Xeljanz) for the treatment of polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis. The drug, a Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor, had previously been approved for use in adults with rheumatoid arthritis, but is the first in its class to be approved to […]

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