Psoriatic Arthritis
Guidelines
New ACR vaccination guideline: Take your best shot
Vaccinate patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal disease against flu and other vaccine-preventable disease whenever possible, experts say.
Conference Coverage
Retention rates high after biosimilar-to-biosimilar switch for inflammatory arthritis
Danish investigators studied how a government-mandated switch from one infliximab biosimilar to another affected patients with inflammatory...
From the Journals
Therapeutic drug monitoring pays off for arthritis patients
Patients who reduced their dosage of TNF-alpha inhibitor had less treatment failure and similar risk of adverse events, compared with standard...
From the Journals
Two biologics equally effective for extraintestinal manifestations of IBD
Ustekinumab and vedolizumab have similar effects on extraintestinal manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease, a real-world, retrospective...
News from the FDA/CDC
FDA approves upadacitinib (Rinvoq) for sixth indication
Upadacitinib’s approval for nonradiographic axial spondyloarthritis marks the sixth indication in the United States for the Janus kinase inhibitor...
From the Journals
Psoriatic arthritis has greater impact on women than men
Women with PsA were more likely to have worse disease burden, pain, fatigue, quality of life, and greater disability and work impairment compared...
From the Journals
Ten-day methotrexate pause after COVID vaccine booster enhances immunity against Omicron variant
Researchers in Germany report a 10-day post-vaccination hold on methotrexate boosts immunity against Omicron without compromising safety or risk...
From the Journals
JAK inhibitors show no excess cardiovascular safety signal in French nationwide cohort
Compared with adalimumab, JAK inhibitors presented no higher risk of major adverse cardiovascular events or venous thromboembolism in patients...
Opinion
A White female presented with pustules and erythematous macules on the left palm
A 53-year-old White female presented with itchy pustules and erythematous macules on the left palm.
From the Journals
Previous endemic coronavirus encounters linked with long COVID
Long COVID may be an unusual response to previously encountered non–SARS-CoV-2 coronaviruses, researchers report.
From the Journals
Analysis of PsA guidelines reveals much room for improvement on conflicts of interest
Researchers show that a majority of the authors of the most recent psoriatic arthritis clinical practice guidelines from the American College of...