SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. – When patients on immunosuppressive therapies need surgery, the risks of disease flare and compromised postoperative recovery and rehabilitation must be weighed against the risk of...
Methotrexate alone appears to be just as good as when it is combined with etanercept in reducing tender and swollen joints in patients with early inflammatory arthritis who have at least one joint...
Glucosamine supplements were no better than placebo at improving cartilage damage in patients with knee osteoarthritis in a randomized trial that was described by study investigators as the first...
SNOWMASS, COLO. – Evidence from three observational studies suggests colchicine has a strong protective effect against cardiovascular events in gout patients.
These data add to mounting evidence...
Autosomal recessive mutations in the gene CECR1 cause an inflammatory vasculopathy with a highly varied clinical presentation that often meets the criteria for polyarteritis nodosa and can occur with...
Most people who misuse opioid pain relievers cite friends and relatives as their sources for the drugs, but more of the people who misuse these agents most often – those who take them from 200 to 365...
SAN DIEGO – Seventeen of 425 children who had eosinophilic esophagitis caused by a specific food developed the condition after outgrowing the allergy to that food, a retrospective study...
SAN DIEGO – Could increased consumption of phytoestrogens help prevent or treat asthma and allergy?
Dr. Jessica Savage, an allergist and immunologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, and her...
SNOWMASS, COLO. – During a recent 15-year period in which the annual arthroplasty rate for osteoarthritis and other noninflammatory arthritides doubled, the arthroplasty rate for rheumatoid arthritis...
Use of tumor necrosis factor–alpha inhibitors was associated with a significant reduction in the risk of coronary artery disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, particularly with longer term...
