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Biologic therapy improves fatigue of rheumatoid arthritis

Posted on: 08/05/2014 - 15:20

LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND – Anti–tumor necrosis factor treatment significantly decreased fatigue in patients with rheumatoid arthritis in an analysis of data from the British Society for Rheumatology <link...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Step-down etanercept fails to control ankylosing spondylitis

Posted on: 05/05/2014 - 19:55

LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND – Reducing the once-weekly maintenance dose of etanercept from 50 mg to 25 mg was associated with worsening control of ankylosing spondylitis in an open-label, multicenter, pilot...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Anti-TNFs linked to lower heart attack risk in RA patients

Posted on: 02/05/2014 - 17:35

LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND – A new analysis of data from the British Society for Rheumatology Biologics Registers’ Rheumatoid Arthritis Register confirms that anti–tumor necrosis factor treatment decreases...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Anti-TNFs linked to lower heart attack risk in RA patients

Posted on: 02/05/2014 - 17:35

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

OA-related walking disability on par with diabetes as CVD risk factor

Posted on: 01/05/2014 - 21:20

PARIS – Greater walking disability is an independent predictor of all-cause death and major cardiovascular events in patients with symptomatic hip or knee osteoarthritis, according to a...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

OA-related walking disability on par with diabetes as CVD risk factor

Posted on: 01/05/2014 - 21:20

PARIS – Greater walking disability is an independent predictor of all-cause death and major cardiovascular events in patients with symptomatic hip or knee osteoarthritis, according to a...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Intraoperative wound anesthetic cut chronic pain after hip replacement

Posted on: 28/04/2014 - 19:05

PARIS – Adding local anesthetic to the wound during total hip replacement surgery for osteoarthritis reduced chronic pain, according to a double-blind, randomized controlled trial. At 12 months...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

PCPs waffle in referrals for total joint replacement

Posted on: 28/04/2014 - 18:15

PARIS – Primary care physicians are only moderately confident about which patients to refer for total hip or knee replacement, according to cross-sectional survey of 218 physicians. One-quarter...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Men have more major complications after hip, knee replacement

Posted on: 25/04/2014 - 22:05

PARIS – After total hip or knee replacement, men are at higher risk than women for heart attack, infection, and revision surgery, according to a large database analysis. The elevated risk was...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Sprifermin injections showed some benefits for cartilage loss in knee osteoarthritis

Posted on: 17/04/2014 - 19:09

In patients with knee osteoarthritis, intra-articular injections of 100 micrograms sprifermin led to significant benefits in measures of lateral femorotibial cartilage loss and joint space narrowing...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

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