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CHMP Issues Positive Opinion on AbbVie's (ABBV) HUMIRA as non-Infectious Uveitis Treatment

May 27, 2016 7:09 AM EDT

AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has granted a positive opinion for HUMIRA (adalimumab) for the treatment of non-infectious intermediate, posterior and panuveitis in adult patients who have had an inadequate response to corticosteroids or in whom corticosteroid treatment is inappropriate. HUMIRA can also decrease corticosteroid use in corticosteroid-dependent patients.

Non-infectious uveitis is a group of diseases characterized by inflammation of the uvea, the middle layer of the eye.1 It can lead to reduced vision or vision loss and is... More