By limiting joint damage, disability is reduced. The primary treatment for rheumatoid arthritis is medication to reduce immune system activity and inflammation. Five categories of drugs commonly used ...

Nurse-led care effectively reduces disease activity and improves self-efficacy in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, ...

Neck pain can be one of the effects of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In the highest risk group (male sex, positive rheumatoid factor, longstanding and erosive joint disease), up to 80% of individuals ...

Monoclonal antibodies are novel therapeutic agents used with great success in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA ... hopefully several will emerge as alternative agents in the armamentarium ...

Arthritis is not a single condition, many types exist. The two most common types are osteoarthritis (OA), which affects around 10 million people in the UK, and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), with ...

Worries that tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors may exacerbate or even cause lung disease in patients with rheumatoid ...

Dr Philip J. Mease shares his insights on the use of ultrasound in psoriatic arthritis diagnosis, particularly in uncovering cases that are not obvious.

Nov. 13, 2024 — The use of biologic and targeted therapies for children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) surpassed more typical therapies in recent years, according to ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic ... In recent years, it has been recognized that successful treatment strategies for RA involve early and aggressive pharmacotherapy with one or more ...

University of Birmingham researchers have just been awarded £3.5 million funding from Johnson & Johnson to investigate mechanisms of response and non-response to biologic and targeted synthetic ...

Rosnilimab for rheumatoid arthritis and ulcerative colitis Rosnilimab is a PD-1 agonist depleting T-cell activity for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and ulcerative colitis. Both trials are ...

The random coefficient (RC) model may represent a better alternative. A two-arm (active treatment and placebo ... An important goal of randomised clinical trials on rheumatoid arthritis treatments is ...