Janssen Biotech and Miraca Life Sciences have partnered to create "Janssen 2Inform," a program that provides free therapeutic drug monitoring services to patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
Here's what you need to know:
1. Janssen Biotech is a biotechnology company headquartered in Horsham, Pa.
2. Miraca Life Sciences is a medical laboratory based in Irving, Texas. This collaboration utilizes the company's InformTx therapeutic drug monitoring service.
3. The Janssen 2Inform program provides IBD patients using Remicade treatment with two free therapeutic drug monitoring blood tests each year, even if they are not covered by insurance.
4. These tests will be analyzed by Miraca Life Sciences and reported back to the physician.
5. This program aims to help healthcare providers better evaluate how a patient is responding to Remicade.