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Study: 2 drugs better than 1 for Crohn's disease

(MedlinePlus) UPDATED 2009-06-03

An international team of researchers has found that Crohn's disease patients who are given both Remicade and Azasan are more likely to have the disease go into steroid-free remission than those who are given only one of these drugs. In the study of 508 patients with moderate-to-severe Crohn's, scientists found that 72.2 percent of patients who'd received the Remicade/Azasan drug combination were in steroid-free remission at the end of the trial, compared to 60.8 percent who'd received Remicade alone and 54.7 percent who had taken Azasan alone. Read full story >

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