A study looked at more than 23,600 Medicare beneficiaries with RA who had received a ≥30-day prescription of an opioid drug. Participants were grouped according to those who had been prescribed a ...

rheumatoid arthritis dmard vs biologic Updated American College of Rheumatology recommendations suggest using first-line DMARDs in combination with biologic agents and nonbiologic DMARDs to achieve ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Sustained DMARD-free remission “does not seem attainable” for patients with RA requiring biological DMARDs, but ...

Glucocorticoids are widely used anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive drugs for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The disease-modifying potential of low to medium doses of glucocorticoids has been ...

Relapse occurred in over half of patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) within a year of stopping biologic or targeted synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD) treatment after ...

Early aggressive treatment of rheumatoid arthritis is associated with improved disease control, slower radiological progression and improved functional outcomes. Tumor necrosis factor blocking therapy ...