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Improved Survival with Renal Transplant in SLE
The Annals of Internal Medicine has published a cohort study of lupus nephritis patients with end-stage renal disease showing that renal transplantation is associated with improved survival benefit, and a reduction in death from cardiovascular disease and infection.
Read ArticleRheumNow Podcast – TNFs and the Inflammasome (1.25.19)
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Read ArticleObesity Needs to be Treated in Psoriatic Arthritis
Obese patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) who followed a short-term, very low-energy diet showed improvements in multiple aspects of disease activity, a prospective study found.
Read ArticleDoes Seropositivity Change with Therapy?
A subanalysis of the early rheumatoid arthritis (RA) "IMPROVED" study has shown that changes in RA-autoantibody levels are not associated with disease activity or or long-term drug response, but instead reflect intensity of immunosuppression.
Read ArticleMajor Challenges for Lupus in 2019
Despite striking improvements in survival among patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in recent decades -- from 1-year survival of less than 50% before the introduction of prednisone to 90% today in most specialized treatment centers -- many challenges remain in this perplexing, multis
Read Article2019: the Year of Price Hikes
In 2019 there have been numerous reports of higher drug pricing for many drugs. Yesterday it was reported that the price of insulin drugs have more than doubled from 2012 to 2016.
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Using FMF-KI knockout mice (high TNF levels) researchers find TNF signaling drives pyrin & inflammasome activation; TNF is a critical modulator of pyrin of pyrin-inflammasomopathies like FMF. This is why TNF inhib sometimes work in inflammasomopathies. https://t.co/0EvuTI57tn
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