Sept. 11 (UPI) --A study has linked the drug azathioprine, commonly used for a variety of conditions, with skin cancer development. The drug, which sold under the brand names Imuran and Azasan, is ...

Azathioprine (Imuran) is an immunosuppressant, prescribed for prevention of rejection kidney transplantation. It is also used for rheumatoid arthritis and autoimmune diseases. The information provided ...

A drug used to treat inflammatory bowel disease, arthritis and vasculitis as well as to prevent organ rejection in transplant patients has been identified as an important contributor to skin cancer ...

In a research done at the University of Dundee, Queen Mary University of London and the Wellcome Sanger Institute, it has been found that a widely-used drug that treats inflammatory bowel disease, ...

June 4 -- WEDNESDAY, June 3 (HealthDay News) -- Crohn's disease patients who received a combination of the drugs infliximab (Remicade) and azathioprine (Azasan) were more likely to have the disease go ...

(HealthDay News) – For pediatric patients with refractory atopic dermatitis (AD), oral azathioprine is associated with clinical improvement, and measurement of thiopurine methyltransferase (TPMT) ...

The Department of Pharmaceuticals (DoP) has rejected the review application of Mumbai-based RPG Life Sciences, part of RPG Enterprises, while upholding the ceiling price fixed by the drug price ...

Three former pill packers are planning to sue pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, claiming that their health suffered from alleged exposure to a highly toxic drug, it emerged today. The three women, ...

The Price section compares costs of the same generic drugs across brands and is purely for information purpose. Medindia neither buys nor sells drugs. Azathioprine (Azathioprine) is an ...

A drug used to treat inflammatory bowel disease, arthritis and vasculitis as well as to prevent organ rejection in transplant patients has been identified as an important contributor to skin cancer ...

The study, funded by Cancer Research UK and published in the journal Nature Communications, identified a 'strong case for an association' between the drug azathioprine and the mutational signature ...