Autoimmune Disease

The FDA has granted breakthrough device designation to Blackrock Neurotech for its MoveAgain Brain Computer Interface System, according to a company press release.

Data presented at ACR Convergence 2021 support the use of life-saving lung transplantation among qualified patients with systemic autoimmune diseases.

The use of vitamin D3 or omega-3 fatty acid supplements over a 5-year period may reduce the incidence of autoimmune disease in older adults by 25% to 30%, according to data presented at ACR Convergence 2021.

The effect size for the correlation between hypothyroidism and clinical depression appeared significantly lower than previously thought, according to results of a systematic review and meta-analysis published in JAMA Psychiatry.

A recent safety review of janus kinase inhibitors revealed that the medications were linked to an increased risk for serious heart-related events, cancer, blood clots and death.

Cancer screening recommendations for patients with autoimmune diseases largely rely on clinical experience and extrapolation in the absence of abundant data, according to a speaker at the 2021 Congress of Clinical Rheumatology-East meeting.

Approximately 84% of patients with autoimmune diseases develop antibodies from the COVID-19 vaccine, compared with 98.1% of healthy health care workers, according to an interim analysis published in MedRxiv.

Individuals with rheumatic, autoimmune or musculoskeletal diseases are not at increased risk of acquiring SARS-CoV-2, according to one of the authors of the EULAR COVID-19 recommendations who addressed the EULAR 2021 Congress.

Researchers in Spain found that patients with inflammatory rheumatic disease had a greater risk for developing severe COVID-19 pneumonia than the general population.

COVID-19 is more severe, with more complications and higher mortality, than influenza among patients with autoimmune disease, according to data published in Rheumatology.