DESTIN, FLA. – Personalized medicine – picking the right patient for the right drug – is a hot topic in medicine in general, but the approach is challenging for rheumatoid arthritis because of its...
A structured physical activity program reduced the rate of major mobility disability among sedentary men and women aged 70-89 years who were at high risk for the condition, in a randomized clinical...
DESTIN, FLA. – Patients who present with what appears to be "puffy hand sign" should be carefully evaluated for systemic sclerosis, and if they also report Raynaud’s phenomenon and display...
Physical therapy incorporating manual therapy, exercise, patient education, and in some cases use of an assistive device for walking, failed to lessen pain or improve function in hip osteoarthritis...
In arithmetic and newly diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis alike, three is greater than one.
Initial triple disease-modifying therapy with either of two glucocorticoid (GC) bridging therapies proved...
PARIS – Inflammatory ultrasound features in hand osteoarthritis may point clinicians toward patients at higher risk for radiographic progression, a longitudinal study suggests.
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PARIS – Combining e-mail and office-based technology garnered patient-reported outcomes from more than 90% of patients receiving orthopedic care, in an analysis of 18,073 physician-patient...
PARIS – Weight loss of more than 5% produced clinically meaningful improvements in knee osteoarthritis, even when final body mass index remained high, a large, community-based study has shown.
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PARIS – Impaired vibratory sense and muscle strength may be important risk factors for knee instability in persons with or at risk for symptomatic knee osteoarthritis, according to an analysis of a...
PARIS – Vigorous, but not moderate, physical exercise was associated with a significantly greater risk of knee osteoarthritis progression over 1 year in a longitudinal analysis of 99...
