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KEYSTONE, COLO. -- The top diagnostic priorities when a lung problem is detected in a patient with underlying rheumatoid arthritis or another autoimmune disease are to rule out infection and [...]

PHILADELPHIA -- Patients with moderately active rheumatoid arthritis had a high prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency and deficiency in a prospective study of 1,160 patients in the Veterans Health Administration [...]

PARIS -- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections have been reported for the first time in patients with rheumatoid arthritis being treated with tumor necrosis factor inhibitors. In a poster presented at [...]

SNOWMASS, COLO. -- Heart failure is a major contributor to the excess mortality in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, Dr. Sherine E. Gabriel said at a symposium sponsored by the American [...]

BOSTON -- Heart failure appears to be treated less aggressively in people with concomitant rheumatoid arthritis, based on the results of a community-based cohort study. The findings, which were reported [...]

Rheumatoid arthritis patients have not experienced a decline in mortality, despite dramatically increased life expectancy in the general population and newer, more aggressive arthritis treatments. This stagnation is contributing to [...]

BOSTON -- Increased rheumatoid arthritis disease activity is associated with a greater risk of developing infections, judging from the analysis of data from a large rheumatology database, Dr. Daniel E. [...]

BARCELONA -- Treatment with tumor necrosis factor blocking drugs has been shown for the first time to improve mortality in rheumatoid arthritis, Dr. Lennart Jacobsson said at the annual European [...]

BERLIN -- Induction of clinical remission of rheumatoid arthritis within the first 6 months of therapy is key to maintaining patients' ability to work in subsequent years, Kari Puolakka, M.D., [...]

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND -- Routine annual measurement of vitamin D levels, and supplementation if needed, is justified in patients with rheumatoid arthritis because deficiency of the vitamin is common in this [...]

Women with rheumatoid arthritis have a twofold higher risk of myocardial infarction than women without the autoimmune disease, according to evidence from the Nurses' Health Study. But the jury is [...]