News Author: Nicola Garrett Publish date: October 9, 2015
Key clinical point: Switching to rituximab may be more efficacious than switching anti-TNF agents in patients with moderate to severe rheumatoid a...
News Author: Nicola Garrett Publish date: October 8, 2015
Key clinical point:Failure to achieve minor responses at 3 months almost ruled out successfully reaching the target at 6 months.
Major finding: To...
News Author: Nicola Garrett Publish date: September 18, 2015
The power of the central sensitization analogy – the idea that pain is best thought about as a stereo with the volume turned up – has led to the scien...
News Author: Nicola Garrett Publish date: September 18, 2015
News Author: Nicola Garrett Publish date: September 18, 2015
News Author: Nicola Garrett Publish date: August 3, 2015
Key clinical point: Office-based iliac venography and stent placement may replace the need to perform these procedures in the hospital.
Major find...
News Author: Nicola Garrett Publish date: June 3, 2015
A single intradermal injection of autologous modified dendritic cells exposed to citrullinated peptides was safe and had immunoregulatory and anti-inf...
News Author: Nicola Garrett Publish date: May 20, 2015
Key clinical point: Intraoperative anticoagulation alone does not prevent DVT in patients undergoing vascular and cardiac surgery.
Major finding: ...
News Author: Nicola Garrett Publish date: May 2, 2015
Key clinical point: Current CV risk assessments in RA are suboptimal; there may be benefit in considering both LDL-C and HDL-C levels when estimat...
News Author: Nicola Garrett Publish date: May 2, 2015
Key clinical point: Naive lymphopenia may be a B cell specific marker of disease activity in AAV that predicts relapse and can guide physicians on...
News Author: Nicola Garrett Publish date: May 2, 2015
Key clinical point: Patients with newly diagnosed SSc should have baseline lung CT and pulmonary function tests
Major finding: Baseline high-resol...
News Author: Nicola Garrett Publish date: April 28, 2015
Key clinical finding: The HLA-DRB1 haplotype status of patients with RA may affect radiological damage, mortality, and response to anti-TNF agents...
News Author: Nicola Garrett Publish date: April 27, 2015
Key clinical point: An induction maintenance strategy with etanercept can be applied in some patients with established RA for whom the use of an a...
News Author: Nicola Garrett Publish date: March 26, 2015
News Author: Nicola Garrett Publish date: March 24, 2015
Key clinical point: In a large cohort of RA patients, a clear dose-response effect was observed with reductions in disease activity associated wit...
