Most people start a disease modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD), such as methotrexate, soon after RA diagnosis. If you're still adjusting to a DMARD or want to better understand how it slows joint ...

Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a long-term, inflammatory disease affecting the joints and where tendons and ligaments connect to the bones. It doesn't have a cure. But a growing number of treatments can ...

Continuation of nonbiologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs). Discontinuing biologic therapy before surgery in patients with inflammatory arthritis and planning the surgery at the end of ...

The risk of orthopedic surgery has declined for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) over the course of decades, but the same trend has not occurred for patients with psoriatic arthritis. While ...

DMARDs are a medication that suppresses the immune system. People may take them to slow disease progression in autoimmune or inflammatory conditions, such as different types of arthritis. Inflammation ...

DMARDs, including TNF-alpha inhibitors, may relieve pain and inflammation and help prevent joint damage from rheumatoid arthritis (RA). TNF-alpha inhibitors block TNF-alpha, which causes joint pain ...

Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic inflammatory disease primarily affecting the spine and sacroiliac joints (those between the spine and hipbone). Less commonly, AS can affect other joints such ...

A study looked at more than 23,600 Medicare beneficiaries with RA who had received a ≥30-day prescription of an opioid drug. Participants were grouped according to those who had been prescribed a ...

Otrexup 10mg/0.4mL, 15mg/0.6mL, 17.5mg/0.7mL, 20mg/0.8mL, 22.5mg/0.9mL, 25mg/mL soln for SC inj Adults: RA:Initially 7.5mg SC once weekly; adjust gradually. Use ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs used to treat juvenile rheumatic diseases are excluded entirely ...

Advances in medication have changed ankylosing spondylitis treatment and may even change the progression of the disease. That’s welcome news for many people who deal with the pain and stiffness of ...