SPEAKER: In the last few decades, doctors have made significant progress treating RA. That's mostly due to two types of prescriptions, disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs or DMARDs and biologics.

Neuroimmune modulation represents a promising treatment strategy that uses vagus nerve stimulation to reduce inflammation in RA.

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treatment usually includes antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) combined with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and low-dose steroids. Steroids are technically called ...

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis who use biological DMARDs are unlikely to achieve sustained DMARD-free remission.

Recently, 3 new DMARDs have become available for the treatment of RA: etanercept, infliximab, and leflunomide. These agents show great promise in halting the pain and progression of RA ...

Established RA is usually stage 2. Advanced RA might correspond to stage 3 or stage 4. Disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) are the first line of treatment for RA at any stage.

Leflunomide is the only nonbiologic DMARD developed specifically for the treatment of RA. It is an isoxazole derivative and its active metabolite, teriflunomide (formerly known as A77 1726), acts ...

Biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (bDMARDs) do not appear to negatively impact fertility among women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or psoriatic arthritis (PsA), according to study ...

Rheumatoid arthritis neuropathy occurs when inflammation or other factors related to RA affect the peripheral nervous system.

has been used for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treatment since 1980. It is the most common effective disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD) for RA, and is considered to be the anchor drug ...

"To modify the progression of RA, disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) are essential, which can be classified as conventional synthetic DMARDs or biologic DMARDs,” he said. He said ...

There are several effective treatments for RA, including DMARDs and biologics. Both types of medications control rheumatoid arthritis by lowering the inflammation that fuels it, but there are ...