LAS VEGAS – It’s okay to start urate lowering therapy during a gout attack, according to Dr. Brian Mandell, a rheumatology professor at the Cleveland Clinic.
“I was taught that you don’t treat a...
Cardiovascular disease and major adverse cardiovascular events are significantly more common in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) than in those without, according to two case-control studies...
LAS VEGAS – There’s no easy fix for fibromyalgia, a problem that seems to lurk in the gap between mind and body.
Pharmaceuticals don’t work too well, and patients usually stop taking them after a...
New recommendations for the treatment of patients with ankylosing spondylitis and nonradiographic axial spondyloarthritis largely echo each other in many respective clinical circumstances that are...
Multibiomarker disease activity scores were significantly associated with joint damage after 1 year in rheumatoid arthritis patients taking nonbiologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drug therapy...
U.S. Compounding Inc. is issuing a recall on all sterile products distributed between March 14, 2015, and Sept. 9, 2015, according to a safety alert from the Food and Drug Administration.
The...
LAS VEGAS – Pregnancy outcomes can be excellent in women with lupus, but they need help to make sure everything goes okay.
Rheumatologist Dr. Jennifer Grossman, director of lupus clinical...
LAS VEGAS – Vasculitis isn’t always the final diagnosis, even with a positive ANCA.
A wide range of conditions – even bacterial endocarditis and adulterated cocaine – can set up secondary...
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. – Before considering treatments and surgical options to mitigate lower back pain, physicians should counsel affected patients that quitting smoking is a more effective – and...
