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Proposed RA guidelines: Maximize methotrexate before switching
The guidelines, updated from 2015, recommend using methotrexate aggressively before switching to a biologic or JAK inhibitor. They also urge...
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Infectious disease is an increasing threat from climate change
Shifts in infectious disease patterns caused by climate change need to be on your radar.
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RECIPE trial cooks up gout therapy improvement
Serum uric acid levels were significantly lower at 12 and 24 weeks for patients with refractory gout who received pegloticase plus mycophenolate...
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Denosumab favored over alendronate for BMD protection in glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis
Denosumab “may be considered as an alternative first-line therapy in higher-risk patients and in those who are contraindicated for the oral...
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Abrocitinib highly effective as long-term monotherapy in AD
JADE EXTEND study shows nearly 90% EASI-75 rate at 48 weeks.
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Osteoporosis underdiagnosed in older men with fracture
Even men at high risk for the disease are overlooked for screening as osteoporosis has been thought of as a disease of White women.
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Treatment sequence with romosozumab influences osteoporosis outcomes
Administering anabolic agents followed by antiresorptives is associated with higher gains in bone mineral density and improved bone-turnover...
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‘Disordered eating’ drops after teens undergo bariatric surgery
The findings are “novel because of the age of the patients,” according to one of the investigators.
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Higher cardiovascular risks in Kawasaki disease persist 10-plus years
Researchers evaluated the incidence of myocardial infarction, stroke, death, and more in a follow-up study of Kawasaki disease survivors, compared...
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Methotrexate users need tuberculosis tests in high-TB areas
Those taking corticosteroids or other immunosuppressants are at particularly high risk, a systematic review of literature finds.
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Pregnancy can be safe with interstitial lung disease
Often women with ILD related to an autoimmune disease are advised to avoid conception or terminate their pregnancies. But the largest study to...