The drug baricitinib (a type of drug known as a Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor, also used to treat rheumatoid arthritis) is strongly recommended for patients with severe or critical COVID-19 in combination with corticosteroids, ...
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January is Thyroid Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn more about Hashimoto's disease.
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A severe burn injury is not static. Within 72 hours, partial thickness burns can progress, or convert, to full thickness burns, greatly increasing the risk of infection, incapacitating scarring, and even death.
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Biosimilar drugs could drive down prices for expensive medicines used to treat illnesses such as cancer and rheumatoid arthritis, with savings estimated to be $38.4 billion or 5.9% of projected total U.S. spending on biologics ...
Jan 10, 2022
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In general, people with inflammatory or autoimmune rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) have not been included in the clinical trial programs for COVID vaccines. This has led to questions about the safety and effectiveness ...
Jan 7, 2022
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Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have discovered that having one kind of autoimmune disease can lead to another.
Jan 4, 2022
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(HealthDay)—A serum protein biomarker panel can differentiate patients with early inflammatory arthritis with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) from those with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), according to a study recently published ...
Dec 22, 2021
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Autoimmune diseases are conditions in which the immune system mistakenly attacks the body. Scientists know from previous research that the composition of the gut microbiome, the billions of microorganisms living in the human ...
Dec 22, 2021
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Biomedical scientists at the University of California, Riverside, propose a way for drugs to be more effective against inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD, in which the intestine undergoes inflammation.
Dec 18, 2021
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Treatment options for rheumatoid arthritis have often relied on trial and error. Now Mayo Clinic researchers are exploring the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and pharmacogenomics to predict how patients will respond ...
Dec 17, 2021
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