SAN DIEGO — Erinn Maury knew Remicade wasn’t the right drug for Patti Schulte, a rheumatoid arthritis patient the physician saw at her Millersville, Maryland, practice. Schulte’s swollen, painful joints hadn’t responded to Enbrel or Humira, two drugs in the same class. But the insurer insisted, so Schulte went on Remicade. It didn’t work either....
By LUKE ANDREWS HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM PUBLISHED: 06:59 EST, 29 November 2022 | UPDATED: 07:53 EST, 29 November 2022 Steroid injections used to treat arthritis in the knee may actually make the condition worse, two studies suggest. Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Chicago Medical School gathered data from hundreds of osteoarthritis patients to gauge how their condition would react...
by University of Birmingham Immune reconstitution following CD20 depletion and vaccine responsiveness. (A) Time between last administration of anti-CD20 B-cell-depleting treatment and vaccine administration (left panel—haemato-oncology patients [red], right panel—rheumatology patients [blue]). (B) Seropositivity following SARS-CoV-2 vaccination with respect to time from last administration of anti-CD20 B-cell depletion. (C) Association between the magnitude of antibody...
