Researchers conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to determine the global prevalence of difficult-to-treat rheumatoid arthritis using the 2021 EULAR definition.

CHICAGO -- Hitting rheumatoid arthritis (RA) early and hard, with targeted therapies as first-line treatment, appears to reduce the likelihood that it will reach the dreaded "difficult-to-treat" stage ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In this Healio video, Philip J. Mease, MD, director of rheumatology research at Providence Swedish Medical ...

Dear Dr. Roach: Your recent column noted that a few people need to take antibiotics before dental procedures to prevent a prosthetic knee infection. My friend doesn't have a joint or heart problem, ...

Researchers conducted a retrospective cross-sectional study to assess the impact of clinical features and comorbidities on the subsequent development of difficult-to-treat RA. They included 458 ...

Early escalation to biologic therapies after failure of treat-to-target with methotrexate in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) does not significantly reduce the risk for the development of ...

A new vaccine provides hope for treating and even preventing the highly contagious and difficult-to-treat Clostridioides difficile infection, more commonly known as C. difficile or C. diff. In animal ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In this video, Philip J. Mease, MD, discusses a Nordic registry study presented at the EULAR annual meeting that ...

Cancer cells can change and become resistant to treatments, making cancer hard to cure completely. Some cancers can be considered curable if they are found early, like stage 0 cancers. Research is ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: Our son passed away at 38 years old this past December with an end-stage alcohol-related liver disease. He had been sober for four years prior to this, but blood tests revealed that he ...