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As a lupus patient for over ten years, I have found some ways that make living with this disease a little easier.

Tips on how to manage your weight. As I live with the comorbidity of multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis, I am very interested in learning more about comorbidities in general.

When it comes to the aches and pains of arthritis patients, folks have long believed dishing out more money meant better treatment.

For many people with rheumatoid arthritis , the traditional, and much cheaper, disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs appear to work just as well as newer TNF blockers that target the underlying disease process, a large study shows.

Fall is here and the beautiful reds, golds, and oranges of autumn are wonderful to see! People in your life who are color blind might not be as impressed, however.

In the first and largest researcher-initiated blinded study comparing the effectiveness of a drug treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, researchers found a $1,000 treatment and a $25,000 treatment to have the same effectiveness.

I was... svzw For me the injections werent bad at all, a little pain from the needle I hate needles! but it wasnt bad and I didn't have any of the side affects you get from the pills nausea ect.

The Geisinger Department of Rheumatology has been selected to present six abstracts at the 2009 American College of Rheumatology /Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals Annual Scientific Meeting in Philadelphia Oct.

Patients with early rheumatoid arthritis who respond poorly to standard treatment with methotrexate may benefit from additional treatment with tumor necrosis factor blockers, a Swedish study suggests.

Patients with early rheumatoid arthritis who respond poorly to standard treatment with methotrexate may benefit from additional treatment with tumor necrosis factor blockers, a Swedish study suggests.

Patients with early rheumatoid arthritis who respond poorly to standard treatment with methotrexate may benefit from additional treatment with tumor necrosis factor blockers, a Swedish study suggests.

In early rheumatoid arthritis patients who have failed methotrexate treatment, the addition of infliximab is more effective than conventional arthritis drugs, according to a study in the Aug.

Treating all patients with early rheumatoid arthritis with methotrexate monotherapy for a short period, followed by the addition of a tumour necrosis factor antagonist such as infliximab in patients with inadequate response to methotrexate, is the best treatment option and could prevent overtreatment, as well as reducing the side-effects and costs ...

Patients with early rheumatoid arthritis who respond poorly to standard treatment with methotrexate may benefit from additional treatment with tumor necrosis factor blockers, a Swedish study suggests.

Aug. 6, 2009 -- In a new study, rheumatoid arthritis researchers say they've found a good plan for treating rheumatoid arthritis in its early stages.A The study, published in The Lancet , included 487 adults in Sweden who had had rheumatoid arthritis for less than one year.

Philadelphia &#8212 Many different approaches are used to treat the clinical symptoms of cutaneous lupus erythematosus , both topically and systemically.

Q: My daughter was recently diagnosed with skin lupus. She is 44 and the mother of three children.

Dear Dr. Gott: My daughter was recently diagnosed with skin lupus. What is skin lupus? How will it affect her? It's now on her face.

After a 50-year drought of new drugs and a string of disappointing failures of potential treatments for lupus, researchers said Monday they have found an experimental drug that can ameliorate the symptoms of the life-threatening autoimmune disorder that afflicts as many as 1.5 million Americans.

HEALTH bosses have confirmed that an 'error' was committed following complaints that a Burton man was given ther wrong prescription by a supermarket pharmacist.