Multimarker Urine Test Promises to Improve Lupus Nephritis Diagnosis, Prognosis Accuracy above 85% in early testing -- far better than proteinuria and biopsy Nov 18, 2024
Is It the Therapy or the Therapist Who Helps With Knee Pain? Physical therapy for meniscal tears clearly helps, but new study points to a placebo effect Nov 18, 2024
Two Treatments That Don't Work for Osteoarthritis Negative studies of colchicine and herbal-supplement cocktail dash some hopes Nov 17, 2024
Zoster Vaccine Found Effective, Safe in Autoimmune Patients Claims data show it works and doesn't cause lupus flares Nov 17, 2024
JAK Inhibitor Succeeds in Giant Cell Arteritis Trial At least modestly effective, phase III data show Nov 16, 2024
NMO Drug Looks Good for IgG4-Related Disease Phase III results, now published, should support approval Nov 15, 2024
Lowest Paid Medical 51˶ in 2024 These eight specialties earn the least, with many averaging less than $300k per year Nov 14, 2024
Resistance Training Falls Short in Severe Hip Arthritis Trial finds conservative approach inferior to joint replacement Oct 31, 2024
Wegovy Reduced Pain From Knee Osteoarthritis Patients taking the GLP-1 drug also had greater improvement in physical function Oct 30, 2024
Surprising Mediator Links Poverty and Knee Pain Study: It's not deprivation per se, but intervening factors that go with it Oct 29, 2024
Filgotinib Maintains RA Efficacy for 3 Years, No New Safety Issues Looks like FDA blew the call on selective JAK1 inhibitor Oct 28, 2024
Old-Line Rheum Drugs Lose Luster in JIA Treatment patterns shift as new products come on board Oct 24, 2024
Another Stab at Disease-Modifying OA Drug Hits Home in Early Study Taking a page from HIV medicine Oct 22, 2024
Study Offers Clues for Avoiding RMD Flares After COVID Vaccination European registry analysis brings surprises along with the expected Oct 17, 2024
Want to Cut Urate Levels? Try Losing Weight But Japanese study suggests losses need to be substantial Oct 15, 2024
CHEST Roundup: Diabetes in RA Patients Ups Risk of Interstitial Lung Disease Plus: nalbuphine for IPF cough and AI for reducing lung allograft discards Oct 14, 2024
Acupuncture for Sciatica: Will This Trial Finally Silence the Skeptics? Findings from new study raise the bar Oct 14, 2024
This Exercise May Help Lower Back Pain, No Special Equipment Needed Carefully structured run-walk program proves mettle in small trial Oct 08, 2024
AI Does OK, Not Great, for Finding Inflamed Joints in axSpA While imperfect relative to human experts, system might still be clinically useful Oct 03, 2024
What Skin Says About Health Knowing what to look for can mean the difference between life and death Oct 03, 2024
Exercise, Education to Relieve Knee OA: Mixed Results in Modeling Study Only limited value when costs are considered, study suggests Oct 01, 2024
In Diagnosing Knee Pain, Sometimes More Is More MRI does occasionally reveal important findings missed on x-ray Sep 30, 2024
These Kids With JIA Fare Poorly for Methotrexate Adherence Family, social, and financial stress compromises treatment, study suggests Sep 26, 2024
JAK Inhibitors Edge Out Anti-TNFs for Pain Relief in Rheumatoid Arthritis Swedish study looks at neglected issue in RA treatment Sep 23, 2024
Hitting Psoriatic Arthritis Early With Apremilast Helps Some Patients, Trial Finds But only a minority achieved minimal disease activity within 16 weeks Sep 19, 2024
FDA OKs New Option for Rare Immune-Mediated Vasculitis Benralizumab wins approval for eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis Sep 18, 2024
95-Year-Old Physician: Here's How I Stood Up to a Deeply Ill Richard Nixon Nixon was still recovering from a difficult infection when he debated JFK in 1960 Sep 09, 2024
Off-the-Shelf Drug Matches CAR-T Effects in Refractory Lupus Patient achieves remission with biologic agent currently used for myeloma Sep 04, 2024
Arthritis Patients More Likely to Stick With Biosimilars Spanish registry data show longer time without discontinuing; reasons unclear, however Sep 03, 2024
Scleroderma Patients See Worsened Raynaud's in Summer, Too Study shows surprising nonlinearity between temperature and symptom severity Aug 30, 2024
Novel Drug Works Near-Miracle for sJIA Patients With Life-Threatening Complication Compassionate use produces dramatic results in two patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis Aug 27, 2024
Use of Birth Control Appears Spotty for Women With Lupus Records suggest guidelines on contraceptives are mostly not followed Aug 26, 2024
Renal Impairment Tracks With Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity Study highlights another reason to keep RA under control Aug 22, 2024
Combo Biologics for Lupus Mostly Flop But hint of benefit suggests the approach might not be a dead end Aug 20, 2024
Is Medicare's Negotiated Drug Price List Worth Celebrating? Depends on Whom You Ask. Reactions from physician and consumer groups were positive, but drugmakers begged to differ Aug 16, 2024
Methotrexate for Knee Osteoarthritis; Evaluating Squamous Cell Cancers Also in TTHealthWatch: blood tests for Alzheimer's Aug 10, 2024 podcast
Economic, Personal Burden of RA: Maybe Not So Bad? Survey data show increased healthcare costs, functional impairment, but not as much as expected Aug 06, 2024
Lupus Organ Damage Most Often Comes Early Spanish cohort study tracked patients for up to 20 years after diagnosis Aug 05, 2024