The FDA ordered that the class of drugs known as TNF blockers carry a warning on the packaging that their use carries the risk of developing a potentially deadly fungal disease called histoplasmosis. [...]
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Swedish researchers have been investigating the link between serious infections during the first year of life and the risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). There have been previous studies that have indicated that infections can cause autoimmune diseases in adulthood. The current study seems to show that an infection in infants interferes with the normal maturation of the immune [...] The FDA has received 30 reports of cancer in children under the age of 18 who had been treated for JIA with anti-TNF drugs along with other medications, such as methotrexate, or similar immunosuppressant [...] |
  
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