Study promising for Amgen drug
From Times Wire Services
Early results from an ongoing study showed that people with newly diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis were more likely to reach clinical remission with Thousand Oaks-based Amgen Inc.’s Enbrel plus methotrexate than with methotrexate alone.
Results from the first year of a two-year study of 542 patients showed that 50% of the patients who received Enbrel plus methotrexate were in remission. That compared with 28% of patients receiving methotrexate alone.
The study is the first major rheumatoid arthritis trial to use remission as a primary end point.
