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Dr. Jack Cush reviews the news and journal reports from last week on RheumNow.com
Read ArticleDr. Jack Cush reviews the news and journal reports from last week on RheumNow.com
Read ArticleKnee braces, water therapy and exercise are the most promising non-drug therapies for treating knee osteoarthritis, according to a new meta-analysis publishing June 18, 2025 in the open-access journal PLOS One by Yuan Luo of the First People’s Hospital of Neijiang, China.
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De la Vega et al. have published in Science Translational Medicine the efficacy of an IL-1Ra gene therapy in adults with knee osteoarthritis (OA).
In a dose-escalation trial in nine participants, they observed that a single intra-articular injection of the gene
Read ArticleDr. Jack Cush reviews the news and journal reports from this past week on RheumNow.com
Read ArticleWe'll be blunt: methotrexate flopped in a randomized placebo-controlled trial among patients with osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee.
Contrary to results from a previous trial in hand OA, the old-line disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug (DMARD) failed to bring any improvement relative to placebo
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Dr. Jack Cush reviews the news, journal reports and lupus highlights from the past week on RheumNow.com. Triple positivity, the gut and CRPS, and hope for better outcomes with Vitamin D therapy.
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