Eli Lilly and Company and Incyte Corporation have announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the 2-mg dose of Olumiant (baricitinib)—a once-daily, oral, Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor—for the treatment of adults with moderately-to-severely active rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who have had an inadequate response to ≥1 tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitor therapies. Olumiant may be used as monotherapy or in combination with methotrexate (MTX) or other non-biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs DMARDs. However, use of Olumiant in combination with other JAK inhibitors, biologic DMARDs, or with potent immunosuppressants, such as azathioprine and cyclosporine, is not recommended.

Eli Lilly and Company is headquartered in Indianapolis, IN; Incyte Corporation is based in Wilmington, DE.

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