Rheumatoid Arthritis

First-line therapy with abatacept in combination with methotrexate achieved significantly higher rates of stringent measures of remission in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis.

Researchers find optimal combination and dosage for three common antirheumatic drugs.

Methotrexate injection treats patients with rheumatoid arthritis, polyarticular-course juvenile idiopathic arthritis, and psoriasis.

Researchers investigate link between a child's genetic makeup and RA risk for mothers.

The use of a virtual health assistant provides an ongoing measurement of patient outcomes and a precise picture of disease activity, allowing clinicians to better tailor medication therapy to a patient's needs.

Researchers found a single receptor that appears to aggravate RA symptoms.

Assessing a patient's sense of balance and hearing ability may be an aid in diagnosing psoriatic arthritis.

Specialty therapies for rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and breast cancer tended to have positive functional and clinical outcomes for patients.

A meta-analysis of clinical trials assessed patient-reported outcomes in participants receiving tocilizumab or anti-tumor necrosis factors.

Grocery store chain joins growing list of major companies offering enhanced specialty pharmacy.

A multicenter study will examine whether a drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis can improve kidney transplant patients' health.

Survey finds an overwhelming number of seniors are unaware of what biosimilars are.

Executive at Pfizer discusses the various regulatory roadblocks and market challenges for biosimilars in a Q&A with Specialty Pharmacy Times.

Pharmacists can assist patients with rheumatoid arthritis in overcoming challenges to adherence.

Participants receiving tocilizumab therapy for rheumatoid arthritis were more likely to have acquired factor XIII deficiency than those receiving other therapies.

Brown bag counseling sessions do not have to be time-consuming or burdensome.

The struggles of managing rheumatoid arthritis and how pharmacists can help are illustrated through one patient's experience.

Researchers in the Netherlands found that improvements in diagnostic testing, new treatments, and better management may be responsible for improvements in physical disability, anxiety, and depression ratings over the past 20 years ago in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

A study published by the American Journal of Pharmacy Benefits compares dose escalation patterns of patients treated with TNF blockers.

A guide to treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, the most common chronic inflammatory joint disease.

A recent study compared the annual cost per treated patient for a health plan for patients taking etanercept, adalimumab, or infliximab.

Rheumatologists in Austria and The Netherlands have proposed a reclassification of synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) into targeted synthetic DMARDs and conventional synthetic DMARDs.

The FDA has added a new black box warning to 2 drugs, rituximab (Rituxan) and ofatumumab (Arzerra) for the potential of either drug to cause reactivation of hepatitis B virus (HBV).

Reports from the United States and Europe reference the lack of long-term effectiveness studies and the lack of comparative effectiveness studies as challenges in determining the most appropriate initial biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD) treatment for patients with rheumatoid arthritis.