News Author: Alice Goodman Publish date: May 21, 2016
Obesity is associated with diverticula in women, not men, and a low-fiber diet is not a risk factor.
News Author: Alice Goodman Publish date: February 9, 2016
Serum squamous cell carcinoma antigen 2 was significantly higher in both skin and serum of patients with psoriasis, compared with healthy volunteers i...
News Author: Alice Goodman Publish date: February 8, 2016
People with atopic dermatitis do not appear to be at greater risk for actinic keratosis or basal cell and squamous cell cancer.
News Author: Alice Goodman Publish date: February 8, 2016
Key clinical point: Persistent early-life wheezing was associated with an 12-fold increased risk of diagnosed asthma by age 15 years.
Major findin...
News Author: Alice Goodman Publish date: February 8, 2016
Wheezing patterns in early childhood can predict pulmonary function and the development of asthma in adolescence in a high-risk population.
News Author: Alice Goodman Publish date: November 23, 2015
Key clinical point: Patients with older onset RA can be safely treated with biologics.
Major finding: There was no significant difference in serio...
News Author: Alice Goodman Publish date: November 19, 2015
News Author: Alice Goodman Publish date: November 18, 2015
Sarilumab was superior to placebo on all measures of disease activity and disability in very sick RA patients.
News Author: Alice Goodman Publish date: November 18, 2015
In the latest of a series of studies, baricitinib was more effective than placebo, and in most cases, than adalimumab, in achieving rapid sustained re...
News Author: Alice Goodman Publish date: November 17, 2015
A blood test identifies patients who can benefit from conventional DMARD therapy vs. biologics.
News Author: Alice Goodman Publish date: November 14, 2015
A small study suggests that targeting IL-6 with tocilizumab is an effective strategy for giant cell arteritis.
News Author: Alice Goodman Publish date: November 13, 2015
Denosumab appears to be preferable to zoledronic acid when transitioning from oral bisphosphonates in previously treated postmenopausal women.
News Author: Alice Goodman Publish date: November 13, 2015
In a prospective study of patients with spondyloarthropathies, video capsule endoscopy was a better tool than was ileocolonoscopy for identifying infl...
News Author: Alice Goodman Publish date: November 13, 2015
The first randomized trial to compare ozone injections in knee osteoarthritis has promising results.
News Author: Alice Goodman Publish date: November 12, 2015
Two separate studies found that mortality is lower in patients with rheumatoid arthritis than it was before 2000 and that cardiovascular mortality, in...
