Early diagnosis leads to earlier treatment. With earlier treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), there is a better chance for less radiographic damage, less disability and thus lower overall costs of ...

Vagal nerve stimulation represents a new frontier in the management of rheumatoid arthritis, according to a presentation at ...

Morning stiffness is common for people with arthritis and that got researchers to thinking that if they could time drug therapy to match the body’s rhythms when pain receptors are most active, they ...

Advances in RA treatment require improved understanding of patient-specific therapy appropriateness, focusing on disease pathogenesis and heterogeneity. Current RA treatment algorithms lack biomarkers ...

Functional MRI studies have established that subjective feelings of pain and fatigue have objective correlates in terms of neuronal activity patterns. This study sought to determine whether neural ...

Long-term research indicates that starting rheumatoid arthritis patients on targeted biologic drugs like TNF inhibitors from diagnosis may reduce or delay progression to difficult-to-treat disease, ...

Peripheral neuropathy can develop as a complication of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). You may find similar treatments for both, but your doctor is best equipped to determine what medications may work for ...

The Rheumatoid Arthritis Severity Scale (RASS) scores the disease’s activity, functional impairment, and physical damage out of 100. However, doctors may use newer severity scales to analyze the ...

Polypharmacy in RA patients is linked to increased drug interaction risks, especially with immunosuppressants, necessitating careful management and monitoring. Older age and multiple comorbidities are ...