DENVER – Only one-quarter of patients newly identified as having nonradiographic axial spondyloarthritis will progress to ankylosing spondylitis within 15 years, according to findings from the...
Patients with rheumatoid arthritis who achieved recommended targets on measures of disease activity functioned better, had better quality of life, and used fewer health care resources, compared with...
Total knee arthroplasty provides osteoarthritis patients with greater improvement in pain and health-related quality of life than it does for rheumatoid arthritis patients, possibly relating to the...
ROME – There was no advantage to individually prescribed exercises for knee osteoarthritis over usual physiotherapy in a multicenter, longitudinal, randomized study reported at the European Congress...
ROME – Erosive hand osteoarthritis (OA) is probably a more severe form of the disease, rather than a separate clinical entity, a team of Norwegian researchers has suggested.
Dr. Alexander Mathiessen...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has proposed a Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement payment model to improve patient outcomes from hip and knee replacement surgery, the agency...
The Food and Drug Administration has taken new action to strengthen existing warning labels about the increased risk of heart attack or stroke with the use of prescription and over-the-counter...
ROME – Combined intra-articular injections of Tr14 (Traumeel) and Ze14 (Zeel) provided statistically significant, clinically relevant, and long-lasting relief of knee osteoarthritis pain in a phase...
ROME – Ensuring that intra-articular injections are correctly placed does not appear to result in better pain management for knee osteoarthritis, according to research presented at the European...
