For adults with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), there is a modest reduction in the mean Disease Activity Score in 28 joints using C-reactive protein (DAS28-CRP) at three months for patients receiving tofacitinib (TOF) versus adalimumab ...
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Cancer treatment can be physically, mentally and emotionally taxing. Patients report disruptions in sleep and physical activity, as well as fatigue and depression. Strategies to manage or inhibit these treatment related symptoms ...
Jul 5, 2023
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Yale researchers have found that liver fibrosis—scarring of the liver tissue that occurs in many chronic liver diseases—is associated with reduce cognitive ability and, in certain regions of the brain, reduced brain volume. ...
Jun 26, 2023
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The vast majority of diseases and disorders afflicting humans, ranging from arthritis to Zika fever, involve some level of inflammation. While inflammation is most familiar to us as pain, redness, and swelling, a slew of ...
Jun 22, 2023
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Traffic noise may play an essential role in the development and deterioration of ischemic heart disease. Researchers from the Cardiology Department at the University Medical Center Mainz have now discovered that noise exposure ...
Feb 15, 2023
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Measurement of plasma D-dimer levels—a test more commonly used to detect blood-clotting disorders—can provide useful information when making the difficult diagnosis of periprosthetic joint infection (PJI), reports a study ...
Feb 10, 2023
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For patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (NDMM), a nomogram based on the inflammatory-nutritional score (INS) may help to predict survival, according to a study published online Jan. 5 in the Journal of Inflammation ...
Jan 20, 2023
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The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) clinical practice guideline (CPG) for management of well-appearing, febrile infants can help detect invasive bacterial infections (IBI) without using C-reactive protein (CRP) and procalcitonin ...
Dec 30, 2022
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A new surveillance case definition for multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection has been developed, according to research ...
Dec 19, 2022
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Restless leg syndrome (RLS) is more common in psoriasis patients and is associated with more severe psoriasis, according to a study published online Dec. 5 in the International Journal of Dermatology.
Dec 15, 2022
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