Early start and stop of biologics: has the time come?

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Published in BMC Med on February 06, 2014

Authors

Ronald F van Vollenhoven1, György Nagy, Paul P Tak

Author Affiliations

1: Unit for Clinical Therapy Research, Inflammatory Diseases (ClinTRID), The Karolinska Institute, Stockholm 17176, Sweden. Ronald.van.vollenhoven@ki.se.

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