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NEW YORK -- Survivors of West Nile virus infection continue to experience significant impairment 1 year after the illness, Denis Nash, Ph.D., said at a conference sponsored by Mount Sinai [...]

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND -- The latest piece of evidence linking psoriasis with cardiovascular disease suggests that patients with the skin disease are at high risk of having elevated serum levels of [...]

BERLIN -- Women with systemic lupus erythematosus have a greater prevalence of cervical abnormalities detected on Pap smears than do healthy women; they are at heightened risk for infection with [...]

PHILADELPHIA -- The use of statin drugs did not significantly delay the decline in renal function in patients with chronic kidney disease in two recent studies, but some benefits were [...]

TORONTO -- Treatment of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis with pirfenidone was "encouraging" in a phase III study conducted in Japan. Few treatment options are available for patients with idiopathic [...]

PARIS -- Treatment of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus with the monoclonal antibody belimumab permitted reductions in corticosteroids through 3 years of observation, according to a post hoc analysis of [...]

PARIS -- Patients with early rheumatoid arthritis had greater improvements with abatacept treatment than did those with longstanding disease, according to a new post hoc analysis of two clinical trials. [...]

TORONTO -- Treatment with a proton pump inhibitor did not improve asthma control in patients with poorly controlled asthma and minimal or no symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux, according to results [...]

TORONTO -- A substantial proportion of patients with severe refractory asthma are unable to become well controlled despite the availability of updated guidlines, even in subspecialty care, according to Dr. [...]

TORONTO -- Treatment with a proton pump inhibitor did not improve asthma control in patients with poorly controlled asthma and minimal or no symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux, according to results [...]

TORONTO -- Gene expression profiling of peripheral blood lymphocytes successfully identified lung cancer patients with an overall accuracy of 87% in a cross-sectional study of 230 subjects. The test, which [...]

LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND -- Patients with rheumatoid arthritis who have a history of cigarette smoking are more likely to have a poor response to anti-tumor necrosis factor therapy than are those [...]

LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND -- Patients with rheumatoid arthritis who have a history of cigarette smoking are more likely to have a poor response to anti-tumor necrosis factor therapy than are those [...]

NEW YORK -- Short-term moderate-dose corticosteroid therapy might avert serious flares in lupus patients whose disease is clinically stable but who show elevations of certain serologic disease markers, Dr. H. [...]

A new analysis of data from observational studies and case reports as confirmed that the use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors is associated with an increased risk of upper gastrointestinal [...]

A new analysis of data from observational studies and case reports has confirmed that the use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors is associated with an increased risk of upper gastrointestinal [...]

A new analysis of data from observational studies and case reports has confirmed that the use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors is associated with an increased risk of upper gastrointestinal [...]

More than half of hospitalized patients worldwide are at risk for venous thromboembolism, and despite the availability of evidence-based guidelines, the rate of appropriate prophylaxis remains low. With pulmonary embolism [...]

BOSTON -- Overweight patients with early rheumatoid arthritis were less likely to achieve remission during treatment with conventional disease-modifying drugs than were those with a normal body mass index, a [...]

BOSTON -- Tocilizumab reduced both articular and systemic manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis in the largest study thus far to evaluate this interleukin-6 receptor antibody in patients with an inadequate response [...]

BOSTON -- Elevated levels of three interferon-regulated chemokines that correlate with disease activity in systemic lupus erythematosus might prove useful for the prediction of disease flares. Findings from research sponsored [...]

BOSTON -- Treatment options for children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis might soon expand, with safety and efficacy now having been demonstrated for two additional biologic agents--even in patients who have [...]

BOSTON -- Treatment options for children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis might soon expand, with safety and efficacy now having been demonstrated for two additional biologic agents--even in patients who have [...]

BOSTON -- Inhibition of two key immunoregulatory cytokines known to be involved in the pathogenesis of psoriasis and other autoimmune diseases led to significant improvements in psoriatic arthritis, judging from [...]

An updated consensus statement to help clinicians decide which biologic agent is appropriate for use in their patients has been issued by an international group of experts. New findings on [...]

BARCELONA -- The first study to evaluate the response to pneumococcal vaccination in patients with rheumatoid arthritis receiving abatacept found that modulation of T-cell costimulation by this agent did not [...]

Statin drugs may have a potential role in slowing the neurodegenerative processes involved in Alzheimer's disease, according to new evidence reported by Dr. Gail Li of the University of Washington, [...]

The world's largest database on scleroderma, which now includes 5,500 patients from more than 100 centers on five continents, has begun to yield data that may more clearly delineate the [...]

Admission to a neonatal intensive care unit before July 1992 should be considered a risk factor for hepatitis C virus infection because patients may have received tainted transfusions, results of [...]

Dysfunction of the salivary glands in Sjogren's syndrome, most pronounced in early disease, continues to worsen over time regardless of treatment, a longitudinal study has found. Little is known about [...]

SORRENTO, ITALY -- Administration of intravenous immunoglobulin may have a future role in the treatment of metastatic melanoma, Dr. Jack Nussbacher said at the Fifth International Congress on Autoimmunity. IVIG [...]

SORRENTO, ITALY -- Patients with pemphigus who are younger than 40 years at the time of diagnosis and whose first remission is brief are likely to have a more severe [...]

NOORDWIJK, NETHERLANDS -- Vaccination with high-dose interleukin-12 successfully boosted the immune response and was associated with clinical benefits in patients with metastatic melanoma, Dr. Jeffrey S. Weber reported. Melanoma is [...]

NEW YORK -- Racial disparities in access to health care will disappear only when adequate and representative samples of minorities participate in clinical trials, Winston Price, M.D., said at the [...]

LONDON -- The incidence of coronary heart disease among young women with systemic lupus erythematosus is "startlingly worrying," Ian Bruce, M.D., said at the Sixth European Lupus Meeting. Studies have [...]

NEW YORK -- A long-simmering controversy concerning the use of high-dose vitamin C as a treatment for advanced cancer erupted during a meeting on complementary and alternative therapies, with Barrie [...]

SAN ANTONIO -- The dopamine-3 receptor agonist pramipexole significantly improved pain, function, and fatigue in patients with severe, longstanding fibromyalgia, Andrew J. Holman, M.D., said in a late-breaking abstract session [...]

EXETER, ENGLAND -- A proprietary formulation of St. John's wort was equivalent in efficacy to paroxetine for moderate to severe depression in a prospective, randomized, multicenter study, Stephan Klement, M.D., [...]

SAN ANTONIO -- A small group of patients with severe systemic sclerosis have shown a durable response to autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, with 8 of 13 transplanted patients remaining [...]

SAN ANTONIO -- Intact human recombinant parathyroid hormone prevented both recurrent and first fractures in a multinational, randomized, placebo-controlled study of postmenopausal women with osteoporosis, Mark P. Ettinger, M.D., said [...]

History of Use Phytotherapy for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is popular in Europe where this treatment approach has a long history of use. In recent years, one herb--saw palmetto or [...]

BELVAST -- Widespread and prolonged use of topical fusidic acid for the treatment of skin conditions such as eczema has led to a rapid increase in the prevalence of resistant [...]

As the fallout from the rofecoxib withdrawal escalated--with Merck & Co. facing questions from federal prosecutors and the Securities and Exchange Commission--a larger question emerged: Is the cardiovascular risk a [...]

BELFAST -- Eight weeks after the exam, the patient became acutely confusional, and a CT scan showed space-occupying lesions in the right cerebral hemisphere, hydrocephalus, and a midline shift. Multiple [...]

Health insurers, physicians, and patients are scrambling to figure out how to weigh the risks of rofecoxib against the drug's benefits, in light of a study showing that standard dosages [...]

Rationale for Use The effects of fish oil supplementation in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are both direct and indirect. Two omega-3 fatty acids in fish oil, eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid, [...]

BERLIN -- Patients with hand osteoarthritis are twice as likely as those without it to eventually develop OA in the knees or hips, particularly when the initial hand disease is [...]

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND -- Cardiovascular comorbidity places patients with rheumatoid arthritis at risk for depression, which in turn can further worsen cardiovascular outcome, according to the results of a new study. [...]

NEW YORK -- The novel coronavirus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome has rapidly yielded many of its secrets to concerted efforts by clinicians and basic researchers worldwide. Within a [...]

LAKE BUENA VISTA, FLA. -- Preliminary findings suggest that older women, even those who are not sexually active, can be infected with the high-risk strains of human papillomavirus associated with [...]