Pfizer Announces Approvals for Tofacitinib for Treatment of RA

Pfizer Inc.

announced today that tofacitinib has been approved for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in patients who had an inadequate response to existing therapies in several additional countries around the world, including Switzerland, which is the first European country to receive approval. Swissmedic, the Swiss agency for therapeutic products, approved tofacitinib 5 and 10 mg twice-daily (BID) as monotherapy or in combination with a disease modifying non-biologic antirheumatic agent (DMARD), including methotrexate (MTX), in adult patients with moderate-to-severe active RA who have had an inadequate response or intolerance to MTX. Tofacitinib 5 mg BID has also been approved in Argentina, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, and tofacitinib 5 mg and 10 mg BID has been approved in