IBD-Associated Arthritis News

Anti-COVID-19 antibody responses are attenuated in patients who receive infliximab for inflammatory bowel disease, according to a speaker at the 2021 Interdisciplinary Autoimmune Summit.

Undeterred by the FDA’s rejection of filgotinib over testicular toxicity concerns, the United Kingdom’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has endorsed its use among eligible patients on England’s National Health Service.

Drug maker Gilead Sciences has announced it will no longer pursue FDA approval for its janus kinase inhibitor filgotinib in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, according to a company press release.

Therapeutic drug monitoring, in which treatments were individually assessed and reviewed, failed to improve remission for patients with a variety of rheumatic diseases who started infliximab, according to a speaker at ACR Convergence.

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The percentage of adult arthritis visits to office-based physicians increased significantly during 2006-2015, with the percentage of visits where opioids were prescribed also increasing during that time, according to data.

COVID-19 outcomes are worse among patients with inflammatory arthritis receiving glucocorticoids, but not in those receiving anticytokine therapy, according to data published in Arthritis & Rheumatology.

The COVID-19 pandemic, in places like Detroit, with a large working-class population, can highlight the gap between the rich and the poor. It can demonstrate how political unrest can impact the response to a critical situation. Moreover, it can show how health care workers can face both personal and professional challenges in managing an outbreak of this magnitude.

The very idea of social distancing runs contrary to congregation and celebration, two things that lie at the core of New Orleans culture. It is for this reason, perhaps, that New Orleanians were initially resistant to quarantine measures to contain COVID-19. But as the death toll climbed and Mayor LaToya Cantrell canceled St. Patrick’s Day festivities, the city slowly awakened to the idea that this was serious business.

Patients with both chronic inflammatory disease and inflammatory bowel disease demonstrated higher health use and costs, compared with those with just chronic inflammatory disease, according to data published in BMC Rheumatology.