Achieving Realistic Physical Activity Goals Benefits RA Patients

Researchers from The Netherlands report that patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who have higher levels of self-efficacy for physical activity are more likely to achieve their physical activity goals. According to the study now available in Arthritis...

Studies Show Vectra DA Can Track Early Response to Rheumatoid Arthritis Therapy

Crescendo Bioscience™ has announced data indicating that Vectra™ DA, a first-in-class multi-biomarker blood test used to assess rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease activity, provides physicians with an objective measure which may help determine whether...

Targeting Disease Remission has Socio-economic Benefits Over Low Disease Activity

Achieving disease remission in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) provides superior outcomes across measures of socio-economic importance including work productivity and quality of life according to results presented today at EULAR 2010, the Annual...

Important Control Mechanism Behind Autoimmune Diseases Discovered

Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have discovered a new control mechanism in our immune system. The discovery is of potential significance to the treatment of serious diseases such as MS, rheumatoid arthritis and SLE. Science...

U.K. Government Announces New Life Sciences Super Cluster

The British Government has announced plans for a new UK Life Sciences Super Cluster, supported by £1 million of Government investment. Bringing together industry, academia and the NHS, it will help deliver the next generation of medicines and technologies...

Depression Needs to be Discussed During Rheumatoid Arthritis Doctor Visits

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), the most common chronic inflammatory arthritis, are twice as likely as other individuals to experience depression. Although depression in primary care has been well studied, no studies have examined whether rheumatologists...