Medical Research

Work Instability Linked to Fatigue, Depression in Ankylosing Spondylitis

Increased risk of Atrial Fibrillation in Certain Ankylosing Spondylitis Patients

Abstract on Spondylitis Research

Ankylosing Spondylitis Is Associated with Risk of New Onset Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Nationwide Population-Based Cohort Study

Infrared Therapy versus LED Therapy

Cannabis Laws Lessen the Opioid Crisis

Three reports from JAMA Internal Medicine demonstrate favorable trends with less opioid use when cannabis became legal.

Simponi Lowers Incidence of Acute Anterior Uveitis, Phase 4 Study Shows

Treatment with Simponi (golimumab) reduced the incidence of a type of eye inflammation called acute anterior uveitis (AAU) and decreased disease activity in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS), according to a Phase 4 clinical study in a real-world setting.

Why Biosimilars Can Never Be Identical To Originators–and Why They Don’t Need To Be

They are ‘living’ molecules, and there is variability among lots, even in the reference products. The key issue is whether the variability has any clinical significance. So far, it hasn’t.

Pain Persists Despite TNF Inhibitor Use

Ankylosing spondylitis prevalence doubled from 2006 to 2016

EULAR: MMR, Herpes Zoster Vaccines Permitted With Immunosuppressive Therapies

EULAR recommendations now state that vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella, as well as herpes zoster, may be considered with caution in adult patients with autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic diseases at risk, according to a 2019 update published in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.

Ixekizumab superior to adalimumab for joint, skin improvement in PsA

Ixekizumab is superior to adalimumab in simultaneously improving both joint and skin disease in patients with psoriatic arthritis who have had an inadequate response to conventional synthetic DMARDs, according to data published in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.

One-Third of Psoriatic Arthritis Patients Will Need Joint Surgery

Dannish study has shown that one-third of psoriatic arthritis (PsA) will have joint surgery that that PsA patients have twice the rate of joint surgery when compared with the general population.

MRI Activity Scores & SpA

Intercorrelation between MRI disease activity scores of the sacroiliac joints and the spine, and clinical disease activity indices in patients with axial spondyloarthritis

Prevalence of spondyloarthritis and peripheral arthritis among patients IBD

Characterization and prevalence of spondyloarthritis and peripheral arthritis among patients with inflammatory bowel disease

Smokers with spondyloarthritis had worse disease vs nonsmokers