SAN FRANCISCO – Rheumatoid arthritis patients who did not respond to the first tumor necrosis factor inhibitor they tried had a higher rate of good or moderate response when they switched to a...
SAN FRANCISCO – It might be time to add psoriasis to the list of comorbidities bariatric surgery is likely to help.
New York University investigators <a...
SAN FRANCISCO – Patients with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis who received pharmaceutical-grade chondroitin sulfate for 2 years lost about 20% less cartilage volume than did patients treated with...
SAN FRANCISCO – Single-nucleotide polymorphisms in genes for interleukin 10 and human leukocyte antigen are significantly associated with both systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and diffuse large...
SAN FRANCISCO – Obese patients with rheumatoid arthritis are significantly less likely to achieve sustained disease remission than are their peers who are normal weight or overweight, based on data...
San Francisco – Treat-to-target should be the goal of every office visit for rheumatoid arthritis, according to a joint European and North American investigation involving more than 500...
Only four short-term, randomized trials have addressed the safety, efficacy, and tolerability of cannabinoids for treating rheumatic diseases, and all have methodologic weaknesses and a high risk of...
SAN FRANCISCO – Deaths from cardiovascular disease are declining in rheumatoid arthritis patients diagnosed after the year 2000, compared with previous decades, according to a new study presented at...
SAN FRANCISCO – Mortality rates are declining in people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and more closely match those in the general population, according to a retrospective, population-based study...
Protection against shingles appeared to wane between the fifth and sixth years after patients with autoimmune diseases received the live herpes zoster vaccine, according to a large retrospective...
