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    Crohn’s disease (CD) is often more extensive in children compared with adults and requires a tool using magnetic resonance enterography (MRE) for assessing inflammation in the entire bowel. To that end, Gili Focht, MSc, MBA, of the Juliet Keidan Institute of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and an international team of researchers developed and validated the Pediatric Inflammatory Crohn’s Magnetic Resonance Enterography Index (PICMI), which evaluates transmural inflammation in all segments of the intestine and without the use of rectal contrast agents.

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    CHICAGO — Subcutaneous maintenance therapy with an infliximab biosimilar after IV induction resulted in sustained clinical remission and greater endoscopic response vs. placebo in patients with moderate to severe Crohn’s disease. “In the past several years, there have been a number of formulations of infliximab that have met criteria for what is known as biosimilarity,”

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    Fresh insights into how our bodies interact with the microbes living in our guts suggest that a two-drug combination may offer a new way to treat inflammatory bowel diseases such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.

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