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Arthritis drugs found to be effective in treatment of disease that causes deformity of the hand
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Arthritis drugs found to be effective in treatment of disease that causes deformity of the hand

by University of Glasgow A condition which causes deformity of the hand—leading in the most severe cases to impairment and disability—can now be successfully treated by using drugs developed in recent years for the treatment of different forms of arthritis, researchers at the University of Glasgow have found. Their findings are reported in the journal...

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New hope for patients with incurable and disabling hand condition, Dupuytren’s disease

July 6, 2018, University of Oxford Researchers at the Kennedy Institute and Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, working with clinicians at NHS Lothian, have found that injection of the anti-TNF drug adalimumab into Dupuytren’s disease nodules results in the reduction of the cell characteristics responsible for the progression of Dupuytren’s disease. Professor...