Rheumatology News

Men with systemic sclerosis who smoke demonstrate a greater risk for death than women with SSc who smoke, according to a study published in RMD Open.

FDA has scaled back its Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy reporting requirements for providers of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapies.

When initiating allopurinol for gout under a “start low, go slow” dosing strategy, flares in the first 6 months are most common in patients starting with 100 mg daily, or who flared in the month before beginning therapy, according to data.

To combat the myriad of stressors in life, taking a break to plug into your inner joy opens the door to increased well-being.

Fatigue partially mediates the relationship between pain interference and physical disability in juvenile idiopathic arthritis, according to data published in Arthritis Care & Research.

The FDA has approved the Stelara biosimilar Pyzchiva for psoriatic arthritis, Crohn’s disease and all other indications approved for the reference medicine, according to a press release from Sandoz.

Given the substantial investment to become a practicing physician, it should not be surprising that the most significant asset of most physicians is their ability to practice their profession.

Juvenile arthritis can impact the physical and emotional wellbeing of children in unique ways, manifesting in loneliness and depression, according to the Arthritis Foundation.

“Your foot is very swollen. Like, there’s definitely something really wrong with your foot.”

Nearly one-quarter of outpatient visits by patients with systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases in the United States between 2006 and 2019 resulted in an opioid prescription, according to data published in Arthritis Care & Research.