Long-term, low-dose prednisone at less than 5 mg/day appears tolerable and effective for many patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
Search results for: methotrexate
Why Oral Corticosteroids Should Not be Used in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Steroid use in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has been linked to higher mortality rates, greater rate of infections, more cases of pneumonia, and serious gastrointestinal events
Rheuminations: Epigenetics May Help to Explain Why Some Get Rheumatic Disease
Recent research around genes and environmental stresses suggests outside influences can make lasting changes to the genome via epigenetic mechanisms
ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2012: Risk of Immunosuppression from Rheumatic Disease Therapies Poses Challenge for Rheumatologists
Therapies can raise patients’ risk of contracting tuberculosis or other infectious diseases, complicating treatment
Rheumatology Drug Updates
Information on new approvals and medication safety that rheumatologists need to know
Two Inflammatory Conditions—Polymyalgia Rheumatica and Giant Cell Arteritis—Share Clinical Connection
Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and giant cell arteritis (GCA) have common clinical and epidemiologic links, but they need not occur synchronously
Rheumatology Chooses Wisely
ACR identifies five practices, therapies, or procedures physicians and patients should question
What Mick Jagger Can Teach Us About Growing Old Gracefully
Preventive lifestyle behaviors, including regular exercise, can compress morbidity and disability to the very end of our lives, say rheumatologists
ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2012: Rheumatologists Take Proactive Approach in Talking with Teen Patients about Risky Behavior
With teenaged juvenile arthritis patients, it’s important for rheumatologists to engage in conversations about how drugs, tobacco, alcohol, and sex will affect them
ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2012: Immunosuppressed Rheumatic Disease Patients Still Candidates for Vaccines
People with rheumatic diseases can be considered to receive flu and pneumococcal vaccines even if they’re on immunosuppressive drugs
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 82
- 83
- 84
- 85
- 86
- …
- 101
- Next Page »