What is Rituxan?
Rituxan® (rituximab) is a prescription medicine, used along with methotrexate, in adults with moderately to severely active rheumatoid arthritis (RA), who have had an inadequate response to one or more anti-TNF treatments. Simply put, an inadequate response occurs when your treatment either stops working well or does not work well at all. But that could happen for a number of reasons. It could mean that your treatment has lost its effectiveness, that you cannot tolerate the side effects, that your symptoms haven’t improved enough, or that you’re experiencing new symptoms altogether. Whatever the case, it’s not uncommon to respond inadequately to anti-TNFs.
