Remicade Wins Plaque Psoriasis Indication

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By: Tim Wright

Editor-in-Chief, Contract Pharma

The FDA has approved Remicade for the treatment of adult patients with chronic severe (i.e. extensive and/or disabling) plaque psoriasis who are candidates for systemic therapy and when other systemic therapies are medically less appropriate. The recommended dose is an infusion of 5 mg/kg followed by additional doses at two and six weeks after the first infusion and then every eight weeks thereafter. In the Phase III clinical trial EXPRESS, eight out of 10 patients receiving Remicade 5 mg/kg ind...

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