Drug Updates

2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting: Rheumatology Drug Updates, Safety News

Plus, hydrocodone combination products and brodalumab

Bruce Rothschild, MD | January 1, 2015

Why dispensing pharmacies should provide color chart of generic drugs they substitute each month

M.J. Burton, MD, K.L. Winthrop, MD, MSPH, & J.W. Baddley, MD, MPH | January 1, 2015

The FDA modifies rituximab prescribing information to stress risk of hepatitis B virus reactivation

Plus, rheumatology drug news, safety updates

Kurt Ullman | December 1, 2014

How vaccines, medications and rheumatic disease-related effects on immune system interact

How to manage the risks when prescribing medications for patients in chronic pain

Elena M. Massarotti, MD, & Peter H. Schur, MD | December 1, 2014

Rheumatology experts review history of LN, offer explanations for roadblocks to better therapies

Comfort Ability program provides psychological strategies to help children self-manage symptoms

Bruce Rothschild, MD | November 1, 2014

A reader questions whether insurers’ practice of promoting medications has undermined physicians’ ability to provide quality patient care

Plus, FX006, odanacatib and other rheumatology drug news, safety updates