Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), whose disease occurred at an older age, and patients whose disease appeared at an earlier age, had similar improvements in clinical disease 48 weeks after starting the use of Antirheumatic drugs that modify the biological disease, according to a poster presented at the American College. rheumatology / annual meeting of the Association of rheumatologists.
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FDA Treatment Of Sickle Cell Anemia
Officials with the FDA approved voxelotor pills (Oxbryta, Global Blood Therapeutics [GBT]) to treat (SCD) in adults and children ages 12 and older, according to a press release.
Benefit from Treatment With Evolocumab After MI
Treatment with evolocumab (Repatha, Amgen) has shown comparative benefit in high-risk patients who have had recent myocardial infarction (MI), according to a new analysis presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Cardiology in Philadelphia, PA.
Prescriptions On Demand
According to a report by the Commission on Quality of Service (CQC), the number of pharmacist appointments increased by 55% for the last year, which calls for the wider use of pharmacists in primary health care networks.
Positive Results for Type 2 Diabetes
A recent clinical study has demonstrated the long-term benefits of combination therapy with metformin plus vildagliptin (Galvus, Norvartis), a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor [DPP-4], for the treatment of type 2 diabetes (T2D).
