“A drug may stop working after several years. Some people have to try several before they find the one that works best,” says David Daikh, MD, PhD, director of the rheumatology fellowship program at UCSF. “We don’t know why some medications stop working,” says Dr. Marchetta. “There’s just an individual variation of response.”
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