Among patients with rheumatoid arthritis who have chronic kidney disease, including those on hemodialysis, biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs are effective and safe. Among patients ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) inflammation attacks the tissue lining your joints and causes swelling and pain. Inflamed joint tissue breaks down and wears away. Without medications to treat and ...

Experimental therapies are new treatments that show promise but aren’t yet proven for treating certain medical conditions, such as RA. Researchers test these therapies in clinical trials to see how ...

If you work on a farm or in a veterinary clinic, you may wonder if it’s safe to take medication made for animals. This might be tempting if you are sick and you have easy access to animal medication.

They may cause: No medication is 100 percent safe. All medications should be prescribed by a doctor who’s familiar with dosing and side effects. Typically, medications that have a shorter ...

Pfizer has received approval from the US FDA for its rheumatoid arthritis (RA) drug, Xeljanz, which is the first approved RA treatment in a new class of medicines known as Janus kinase inhibitors ...

Methotrexate is one of the most effective medications to treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA ... your treatment works and to make sure it’s safe for organs such as your liver.

In another study of 23,810 patients with RA from Quebec (Canada ... The unadjusted rate ratios for hematologic malignancies after drug exposure were: MTX 1.18 (95% CI: 0.99–1.40); azathioprine ...

An announcement of a drug-trafficking bust in Nanaimo quickly turned into a political football on Tuesday, after the B.C. Conservatives pointed to the arrests as evidence that “so-called safe ...

Rituximab seems to be a relatively safe therapy for rheumatoid arthritis patients with a previous medical history of tuberculosis or other infections, cardiovascular disease or malignancies.