University Of Manchester

The key to better understanding the efficacy vs. effectiveness gap in drug therapies could lie in real-world data and patient registries, according to a speaker at the FDA & American College of Rheumatology Virtual Summit.

Adolescents experience longer wait times to see a pediatric rheumatologist for juvenile idiopathic arthritis, compared with younger children, according to research published in the Journal of Rheumatology.

Children and adolescents with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases who contract COVID-19 are not likely to require hospitalization, according to data published in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.

Combined use of an SGLT2 inhibitor and GLP-1 receptor agonist is associated with reduced odds for major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events and heart failure in adults with type 2 diabetes, according to study findings.

The first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine can cause a decline in interstitial glucose time in range for adults with type 1 diabetes, according to study findings published in Diabetic Medicine.

Female sex was identified as a baseline predictor of increased odds of both nausea and alopecia in patients with rheumatoid arthritis beginning methotrexate treatment, according to data presented at ACR Convergence 2021.

Suicide prevention efforts may need to account for ethnicity because of variation across underrepresented groups, according to results of an observational cohort study published in Lancet Psychiatry.

Pirfenidone vs. placebo in patients with HF, EF at least 45% and elevated natriuretic peptide levels.

In patients with HF with preserved ejection fraction, pirfenidone was associated with reduction in myocardial fibrosis compared with placebo, according to a presentation at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Session.

Most individuals displayed resiliency or psychological recovery within the first 6 months of the pandemic, but two groups of people continued to experience significant mental health effects, according to an analysis of data from the U.K.