Patients with rheumatoid cachexia had significant improvement in lean muscle mass with creatine supplementation but no gains in strength or function in a new, small, placebo-controlled clinical trial.
London, United Kingdom—More than one-third of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who are still sexually active experience sexual dysfunction. And yet, this topic is rarely, if ever, addressed in discussions with rheumatologists, according to the investigators of a study presented at the 2016 European League Against Rheumatism Annual Congress.
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Joint-specific differences in epigenet­ic imprinting and gene expression suggest that disease mechanisms in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) may vary from joint to joint, which may possibly explain some of the varying drug responses among patients with RA, researchers have found.
The first biosimilar was approved in the United States in 2015, but this category of drugs is still fairly misunderstood, according to Jim M. Koeller, MS, Professor, College of Pharmacy, the University of Texas at Austin.
London, United Kingdom—Ixekizu­mab (Taltz) achieved clinically significant improvement in the signs and symptoms of psoriatic arthritis (PsA), including arthritis, dactylitis, and enthesitis, as well as skin improvements, during a 28-week extension phase of a 24-week, double-blind, phase 3 trial called SPIRIT-P1 (totaling 52 weeks).
London, United Kingdom—The presence of depression in patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is associated with more severe pain, and disability at baseline and in the future, according to data from the Childhood Arthritis Prospective Study (CAPS) presented at the 2016 European League Against Rheumatism Annual Congress in June.
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