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by pazimzadeh 811 days ago
Yes but that's one drug, which does increase your risk of infection according to your links. There are other newer drugs for which we don't have 20 years of data.

The best thing is if we could target these drugs to only be activated in areas of active inflammation.
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atombender 811 days ago
Yes, we have less data on newer drugs, but TNF inhibitors are currently the go-to medication for many autoimmune disorders, including Crohn's and UC.

Infection risk is currently the case with all current medications that act on the immune system. In all cases we are merely suppressing some pathway where the end goal is to reduce the immune response.

ThatMs really the best we can do until we actually identify the causes, and can address that rather than "dialing down" our immune systems.

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pazimzadeh 810 days ago
Yes. My point is that we should try to get the drugs to home to the inflamed regions somehow.
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