DMARDs are a medication that suppresses the immune system. People may take them to slow disease progression in autoimmune or inflammatory conditions, such as different types of arthritis. Inflammation ...

Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) — the practice of using laboratory testing to measure blood levels of drugs — has garnered growing interest among rheumatologists in managing patients on ...

Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic inflammatory disease primarily affecting the spine and sacroiliac joints (those between the spine and hipbone). Less commonly, AS can affect other joints such ...

Whereas 89.5% of new prescriptions for disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) in 2000 were for old-line agents, by the end of the period such products accounted for only 43.2% of new starts, ...

People with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) often take medicines to help manage their condition and improve their symptoms. Some of these medicines work directly on the body’s immune system and help to ...

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) whose symptoms improved after they started taking nonbiologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) also demonstrated restored balance in their oral ...