A Mayo Clinic study of the two drugs has found an increased risk of infection and cancer to those who use the drugs. Doctors have not yet considered dropping the drugs because of the dramatic improvement they cause for sufferers of rheumatoid arthritis and other diseases caused by a misfiring...
Unlike current therapies, the new agents are aimed at specific targets in the immune system. They work by blocking the biological processes that drive bone and cartilage destruction in the joints of patients with rheumatoid arthritis. While nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs reduce the pain and swe...
The drug baricitinib (a type of drug known as a Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor, also used to treat rheumatoid arthritis) is strongly recommended for patients with severe or critical COVID-19 in combination with corticosteroids, says a WHO Guideline Development Group of international experts in...
Baricitinib is a type of drug known as a Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor and is usually used to treat rheumatoid arthritis. The researchers say another arthritis drug, interleukin-6 (IL-6), could also be used to treat COVID-19, however, trials of two other JAK inhibitors, ruxolitinib and to...
Actemra is used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other diseases.Doctors around the world are also trying a treatment for infections that is about 100 years old: giving blood plasma from recovered(康复的)patients to sick ones. Plasma is the yellowish liquid part of blood. The blood from former...
ENCOURAGING results from phase II clinical trials suggest that 3 genetically engineered agents could become the first of a new class of pharmaceuticals for treating rheumatoid arthritis. The results of the randomized, placebocontrolled trials were reported at the 1996 Scientific Meeting of the American ...
Anti-TNF therapy is associated with an increased risk of serious infections in patients with rheumatoid arthritis especially in the first 6 months of treat... OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the risk of serious infections (SIs) in patients with RA treated with anti-TNF therapy with emphasis on the ...
Comparison of Tripterygium wilfordii Hook F Versus Sulfasalazine in the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Randomized Trial Extracts of the medicinal plant Tripterygium wilfordii Hook F (TwHF) have been used in China for centuries to treat a spectrum of inflammatory diseases. T... Raphaela ...
When treatment with DMARDs does not work, biologic agents are used to treat RA. A study of biologic agents used to treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA) would provide clinicians much-needed information, according to the authors of a recent review of the existing literature. The reviewers considered ...
Remicade is used to treatrheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis,ankylosing spondylitisand severe or disabling plaque psoriasis in adults. Remicade is also used to treatulcerative colitisandCrohn's diseasein adults and children at least 6 years old. ...