Ulcerative colitis treatment reduces need for surgery by almost half

Thursday, October 1, 2009 - 05:28 in Health & Medicine

A new study led by Mayo Clinic researchers has found that ulcerative colitis patients had a 41 percent reduction in colectomy after a year when treated with infliximab, according to a study published in the October 2009 issue of Gastroenterology.

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