Early diagnosis leads to earlier treatment. With earlier treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), there is a better chance for less radiographic damage, less disability and thus lower overall costs of ...

Morning stiffness is common for people with arthritis and that got researchers to thinking that if they could time drug therapy to match the body’s rhythms when pain receptors are most active, they ...

New EULAR recommendations for the management of rheumatoid arthritis stress that disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs should ...

Advances in RA treatment require improved understanding of patient-specific therapy appropriateness, focusing on disease pathogenesis and heterogeneity. Current RA treatment algorithms lack biomarkers ...

Long-term research indicates that starting rheumatoid arthritis patients on targeted biologic drugs like TNF inhibitors from diagnosis may reduce or delay progression to difficult-to-treat disease, ...