OA isn’t an autoimmune disease. You get it because the cartilage (spongy tissue) between your joints breaks down -- often due to daily wear and tear. As a result, the bones on either side of the cartilage start to change and ache. It's much more common thanrheumatoid arthritis. Osteoa...
Similar to our study,2 Demarzo et al assessed drug survival at 12 months in patients with IBD treated with a secondline biologic.1 The authors observed no statistically significant difference between the antiTNF group (n = 26, 34% discontinued) and the vedolizumab group (n = 12, 16% ...
"The biologic plausibility of our findings is based on in vitro experiments that showed the efficacy of amodiaquine in inhibiting Ebola virus activity. Chloroquine, another 4-aminoquinolone compound, has shown mixed efficacy in in vivo studies," they add. The nature of the analysis meant the rese...
Discuss the interrelationship and interaction between the research sponsor (e.g., drug, biologic and device manufacturers), the cli The dietary reference intake for folic acid for an adult female or adult male is 400 micrograms/day, but for...
By Ingenuity Pathways Analysis, a plausible biologic network underlying susceptibility to leprosy was provided for depicting the functional relationship between some susceptibility genes identified from GWAS of leprosy [25]. Using the initial GWAS data with 706 cases and 514 controls, we attempted to de...
Wondering what the difference is between STIs (sexually transmitted infections) and STDs (sexually transmitted diseases)? The STI Project is here to give you the low-down! STI and STD are often used interchangeably. More recently, the term STI has risen in popularity over STD in public health...
Clin Orthop Relat Res (2016) 474:447–455 DOI 10.1007/s11999-015-4424-5 SYMPOSIUM: 2015 HIP SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® A Publication of The Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons® No Difference in Reoperations at 2 Years Between Ceramic-on- metal and ...
Biologic refers to products derived from living organisms, whereas biological pertains to all aspects of living organisms and their processes.
Biologic Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs in a National, Privately Insured Population: Utilization, Expenditures, and Price Trends Spending on biologic drugs is a significant driver of drug expenditures for payers in private health plans. Biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs ... CB Atzinger...
Patients were divided by drug and included their sex, age at onset, anti-cyclic citrullinated polypeptide antibodies (ACPA) titer, length of RA history at onset, Sharp/van der Heijde score (SHS) at onset, Nave/Not Naive for biologic DMARDs or JAK-i, 28-joints disease activity score (DAS...