COPENHAGEN -- Methotrexate helped high-risk individuals with aching and inflamed joints, but who didn't yet have overt rheumatoid arthritis (RA), avoid that diagnosis for close to 2 years in a ...

The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) has issued new guidelines on the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, addressing questions about initial treatment with methotrexate and minimizing reliance on ...

Patients who take methotrexate for a variety of immune-mediated inflammatory diseases and pause taking the drug following receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine dose did not have a higher risk of disease flare ...

This story was updated on Oct. 31, 2022, with comments from Joel Gelfand, MD, MSCE. People taking methotrexate for immunomodulatory diseases can skip one or two scheduled doses after they get an ...

In July 2022, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expanded the labeling of Krystexxa (pegloticase; Horizon Therapeutics), a PEGylated uric acid-specific enzyme, to include coadministration with ...

Patients with Wegener's granulomatosis often undergo treatment with cyclophosphamide in order to induce disease remission. Methotrexate and leflunomide have been proposed for maintaining remission ...

New research presented at ACR Convergence, the American College of Rheumatology's annual meeting, shows that tuberculosis (TB) screening and ongoing clinical care is needed for people on methotrexate ...

Prednisone is recommended as the first-line treatment for pulmonary sarcoidosis, but this steroid causes a number of unwanted side effects. Now new research published at the ATS 2025 International ...

Adalimumab monotherapy and combination with methotrexate showed similar drug survival and PASI75 response rates in plaque psoriasis patients. Methotrexate reduced antidrug antibody levels but did not ...

SaveHealth reports on common rheumatoid arthritis medications, highlighting their effectiveness, side effects, and cost ...

Noraa Wise is living with a rare, autoimmune bone disease that causes pain in her ribs. She describes it as feeling like needles. The 10-year-old Indiana girl struggled before she started taking ...

Not 24 hours after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last month, ending the right to an abortion in the United States, Myisha Malone-King got a call from her insurance company. It said that ...