A new teaching tool based on the acronym mnemonic PSA may help doctors to screen for psoriatic arthritis in patients with psoriasis or a strong family... More »
MANCHESTER, U.K. – Tocilizumab showed signs of improving skin and other symptoms in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) in an ongoing proof-of-co... More »
MANCHESTER, ENGLAND – Results of the Trial of Atorvastatin for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Events in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis... More »
Specific haplotypes of the of the HLA-DRB1 gene – well known to confer increased risk for rheumatoid arthritis – proved to be strong, independent ... More »
Rheumatoid arthritis patients with low disease activity are less likely to flare if they continue their treatment with etanercept and methotrexate, ev... More »
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients’ severity of morning stiffness and morning pain have stronger correlations with their disease’s activity than d... More »
T cells are still the most accurate urinary biomarker for lupus nephritis, reported Katharina Kopetschke and her coauthors.
In a study of 123 lupus p... More »
Medicare Part D recipients with rheumatoid arthritis face an average of over $2,700 per year in out-of-pocket expenses for biologic disease-modifying ... More »
At the risk of stating the obvious, our patients are becoming increasingly complex. Life is prolonged and comorbidities accumulate, creating dizzying ... More »
The second version of the Toronto Psoriatic Arthritis screen performed well at identifying psoriatic arthritis in 336 psoriasis patients, 131 psoriati... More »
