Innovating to Advance Care for Inflammatory Disease

Advancing Options for Primary Biliary Cholangitis

PBC is a rare, chronic, autoimmune disease that primarily affects women and can cause liver damage and possible liver failure if left untreated. The disease currently has no cure. More than half of people diagnosed with the condition are asymptomatic, but the symptoms that commonly appear — such as pruritus, or chronic skin itching — are often invisible to others, debilitating and can severely affect health-related quality of life. The journey to a PBC diagnosis can be long and challenging, especially when for many, there are no signs of the disease that others can see.

There has been a lack of new and effective treatment options for PBC until recently, with nothing available that addresses both the symptoms of PBC, as well as disease progression. We are constantly striving to improve liver care and provide more options so patients don’t have to settle for a treatment that may not address symptoms that severely impact their health-related quality of life.