Promising New UC Treatment

beatUC

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Posted 11/9/2013 2:08 PM (GMT 0)

new therapy, called vedolizumab, stops cells before they attack.

"It really acts to stop the diseases before they even start,"
abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/health/your_health&id=9317590

Post Edited (beatUC) : 11/9/2013 7:47:22 AM (GMT-7)

garylouisville

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Posted 11/9/2013 2:11 PM (GMT 0)

Link did not work right. This has been discussed a lot here. I am looking forward to this one as it seems to be relatively side effect free compared to the real biologics. I think it is going to be available sometime next year.

hateuc

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Posted 11/9/2013 2:54 PM (GMT 0)

Sounds interesting!

Rabbit81586

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Posted 11/9/2013 3:15 PM (GMT 0)

I'm very excited about this one too. My doctor at the VA mentioned it. We are just trying to limp along for now until it comes out, since remicade and 6mp did not work...hopefully humira does the trick until this one comes out

notsosicklygirl

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Posted 11/9/2013 4:24 PM (GMT 0)

If you search, you can find a lot of info on this topic. It's nice to have another option but it seems like it's more of the time with a possible slight improvement.

Davey Jones

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Posted 11/10/2013 4:23 PM (GMT 0)

WOW and just WOW !!!!!!!
Thank you all for all those responses.
Just a lot of information to absorbe and check out some real facts, Ill be replying to most of you.

Ive been to several sites about this UC and this Healing Well forum has been the most informative.

ItsAlwaysSomething

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Posted 11/10/2013 10:37 PM (GMT 0)

Info on the new drug can be found at the CCFA website:

http://www.ccfa.org/news/two-studies-identify.html

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