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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Once a rheumatoid arthritis patient maintains relatively long-term remission on a regimen that combines a synthetic and a biologic disease-modifying drug, temptation mounts to try withdrawing one of...
A traditional Chinese herbal remedy used to treat joint pain, fever, edema, and local inflammation was found noninferior to methotrexate for controlling active rheumatoid arthritis in an open-label,...
ORLANDO — What should you do when you have a patient who is opiate dependent, but is hospitalized for an unrelated medical reason? What should you do at discharge? And how effective are the available...
Current smoking at the time of early rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis was a strong risk factor for rapid radiographic progression in early rheumatoid arthritis, according to <link...
