August 04, 2025

Mood Shift Linked to Shoulder Pain Relief

Patients undergoing shoulder arthroplasty for rheumatoid arthritis show significant pain and function improvement, and data suggest emotional status may influence recovery dynamics over time.

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July 31, 2025

FDA Approves Implantable Device for RA

“The approval of the SetPoint System, the first-in-class neuroimmune modulation platform, represents a transformative milestone in the management of autoimmune diseases."

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July 25, 2025

Tofacitinib Curbs Inflammation, Not Thrombosis Risk

Tofacitinib dampens inflammatory cytokine production in rheumatoid arthritis models but fails to counteract endothelial prothrombotic responses, highlighting ongoing cardiovascular safety concerns.

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July 15, 2025

Methotrexate Shows No Knee OA Symptom Benefit, Study Finds

A 52-week randomized clinical trial found no significant difference between methotrexate and placebo in reducing pain or effusion-synovitis in patients with inflammatory knee osteoarthritis.

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July 15, 2025

Genetic Markers Don’t Guide RA Drug Choice

A large UK study found no significant difference in treatment effectiveness between abatacept and adalimumab for rheumatoid arthritis, regardless of patients’ HLA-DRB1 genetic profiles.

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May 28, 2025

Kennedy Proposes NIH Publishing Ban

"We're probably going to stop publishing in The Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and those other journals because they're all corrupt."

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April 21, 2025

Lupus Clusters Show Distinct Disease Patterns

Cluster 2 patients exhibited ‘a more severe form of the disease, marked with frequent serositis and haematological manifestations, renal and neurological involvement,’ and had poorer outcomes over time.

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June 12, 2025

Gene Variants Linked to CPPD Risk

A large genetic study in U.S. veterans has identified ENPP1 and RNF144B as genes associated with calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease, suggesting potential for targeted treatment approaches.

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April 30, 2025

New AI Sensor Diagnoses Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis

A new AI-assisted gold sensor distinguished osteoarthritis from rheumatoid arthritis with 98.1% accuracy by analyzing synovial fluid, offering a fast, noninvasive diagnostic option, researchers report.

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