COPENHAGEN -- Methotrexate helped high-risk individuals with aching and inflamed joints, but who didn't yet have overt rheumatoid arthritis (RA), avoid that diagnosis for close to 2 years in a ...

Patients who take methotrexate for a variety of immune-mediated inflammatory diseases and pause taking the drug following receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine dose did not have a higher risk of disease flare ...

NEW YORK CITY -- Postoperative intravitreal methotrexate for retinal detachment led to a significant reduction in reoperation and improved visual acuity, a retrospective chart review showed. The ...

Misoprostol and methotrexate do more than end pregnancies—but anti-abortion pharmacists can now refuse to offer them and ...

Methotrexate significantly lowers systolic blood pressure in newly diagnosed RA patients compared to sulfasalazine, potentially reducing cardiovascular risk. The study provides prospective comparative ...

Prednisone is recommended as the first-line treatment for pulmonary sarcoidosis, but this steroid causes a number of unwanted side effects. Now new research published at the ATS 2025 International ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters. At Vox, our mission is to help you make sense of the world — and that work has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our own. We ...

Social media posts show that some women can’t fill their prescriptions because the medication can also be used to terminate a pregnancy. Women with inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis ...

Patients with Wegener's granulomatosis often undergo treatment with cyclophosphamide in order to induce disease remission. Methotrexate and leflunomide have been proposed for maintaining remission ...

People taking even low-dose methotrexate need tuberculosis screening and ongoing clinical care if they live in areas where TB is common, results of a study presented at ACR Convergence 2020 suggests.

For decades, methotrexate has formed the foundation of therapy in RA, either alone or in combination with other drugs; however, its mechanisms of action remain poorly understood, and many patients ...

A research team led by Prof. Wang Hongzhi from the Hefei Institute of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has ...