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Pfizer's Xeljanz gets EMA blood clots warning following FDA's similar move

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  • cafead   Nov 16, 2019 at 10:32: PM
via European drug regulators have turned a temporary restriction on Pfizer’s Xeljanz into a formal one.

In a decision posted Friday, the European Medicines Agency said the immunology drug's 10-mg twice-daily maintenance dose should not be used in ulcerative colitis patients at high risk of blood clots unless there’s no alternative.

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