Understanding the type of arthritis, its causes, and management options is the first step toward living well with the condition.

A widely used treatment for rheumatoid arthritis may offer an unexpected cardiovascular benefit. Methotrexate has been a staple treatment for rheumatoid arthritis for decades, valued for its ability ...

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RA can affect your lifespan in various ways related to cardiovascular disease, lung disease, infection, depression, and ...

As physicians who treat life-threatening autoimmune disease, we are problem solvers, adept at prescribing diagnostic tests and medications to improve people’s health and quality of life. The problem ...

Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) — the practice of using laboratory testing to measure blood levels of drugs — has garnered growing interest among rheumatologists in managing patients on ...

Rheumatoid arthritis patients taking Humira or Remicade face triple the risk of developing several kinds of cancer and double the risk of getting serious infections, a study led by the Mayo Clinic ...

The use of two arthritis drugs may lower the death rate for severely ill COVID-19 patients, according to research published Jan. 7 in the medical preprint server medRXiv. For the study, which has not ...

MADISON, Wis. -- Researchers at UW-Madison have said a drug typically prescribed for arthritis halts brain damaging seizures in mice with epilepsy. The drug, tofacitinib, restores short term and ...

Methotrexate, a common medication used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, has a newly recognized useful secondary effect of lowering blood pressure and potentially reduces the risk of heart disease in ...