rheumatoid arthritis

May 22, 2015June 5, 2015

Regeneron and Sanofi Announce Sarilumab Therapy Improves Symptoms in Rheumatoid Arthritis patients

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi, two leading biopharmaceutical companies focused on researching and developing innovative therapeutic solutions, recently announced that Sarilumab, a human IL-6 receptor antibody, when administered to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients ... Read more

May 20, 2015May 20, 2015

Researchers Study Methotrexate Utilization in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients

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Recently, a group of researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark released study results in which they found that rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients with high disease activity, older age or a ... Read more

May 18, 2015May 18, 2015

Arthritis Power First Ever Patient-Led, Patient-Centered Arthritis Patient Research Registry

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Upper Nyack, N.Y. based online non-profit organization CreakyJoints, with a support community of more than 80,000 patients and their families in all 50 U.S. states, Canada, Western Europe, South America ... Read more

May 15, 2015May 22, 2015

Mesoblast Cell Therapy Yields Encouraging Results for Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment in Animal Model

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Researchers at The University of Melbourne and the company Mesoblast Ltd in Australia recently published in the journal PLOS ONE the finding that Mesoblast’s mesenchymal precursor cells (MPCs) are capable ... Read more

May 13, 2015June 3, 2015

Similarities Found In Clinical Presentation Of Rheumatoid Arthritis And Chikungunya

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Recent research has shown patients with newly presented, symmetric rheumatoid arthritis and those with the chikungunya virus (CHIKV) displayed similar characteristics in terms of presentation of immune cells and clinical ... Read more

May 11, 2015May 11, 2015

Researchers Believe Artificial Dendrimers Can Solve Molecular Mysteries Of Various Diseases Like RA

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Researchers agree that interactions between cell membrane proteins and sugars hold the key to understanding the molecular basis of many diseases. Sugar molecules, which are attached to cell membranes like an antennae, ... Read more

May 8, 2015May 8, 2015

Study Provides Insight into Immune Differences in Patients with Early Rheumatoid Arthritis

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A team led by researchers at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom recently discovered that two specific cytokines are mainly expressed in the early stage of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) ... Read more

May 6, 2015May 6, 2015

Alder’s Clazakizumab Yields Promising Results for Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment in Phase 2 Trial

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Alder BioPharmaceuticals, Inc. recently announced that its therapeutic antibody clazakizumab (ALD518) has met the primary endpoint of a Phase 2b clinical trial in adult patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The results ... Read more

May 5, 2015May 5, 2015

Increased Predisposition To Heart Attacks In Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients

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At the recently concluded ICNC 12 held May 3-5, 2015 in Madrid, Spain, a study examining the risk of heart disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis was presented by Dr. Adriana ... Read more

May 1, 2015May 1, 2015

Osteoarthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Share Equal Risks in Developing Venous Thromboembolism after TKA Surgery

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In a new study entitled “Risk of Venous Thromboembolism after Total Knee Arthroplasty in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis” a team of clinicians assessed whether patients with osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis who ... Read more