Rheumatoid Arthritis
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Home-Based Postop Therapy Acceptable After Total Knee Replacement
Major Finding: The WOMAC function scores at postoperative week 10 were similar at a mean of 44.0, 39.32, and 35.0 in the one-on-one patients, the...
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Novel Anti-GM-CSFR Monoclonal Antibody Shows Promise in RA
Major Finding: During the 12-week, dose-ranging study, 55.7% of 149 patients who received 10, 30, 50, or 100 mg of active treatment achieved the...
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Novel CCR-1 Antagonist Shows Promise in RA
Major Finding: ACR20 response rates among day 1 eligible subjects in an intention-to-treat analysis were 56%, 44%, and 30%, in the 200-mg, 100-mg...
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Rheumatoid Arthritis Doubled Fracture Risk in Younger Women
Major Finding: Overall, women with RA had a 63% greater risk of fracture than women without RA.
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Cancer Risk From Biologics in RA Shown Negligible
Major Finding: During 5 years of follow-up, 91 of the 3,543 participants taking DMARDs (2.6%) and 295 among 11,719 participants taking anti-TNF...
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Biomarkers to Predict RA Treatment Response Still Elusive
Major Finding: At present, no genetic, protein, or cellular biomarkers, nor patient traits, strongly predict how a rheumatoid arthritis patient is...
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Serious Infection Risk Similar for Biologics, Nonbiologics
Major Finding: Serious infection rates per 100 person-years were similar in the first year of treatment with biologic and nonbiologic agents (7.78...