Rheumatologists have several choices when it comes to monitoring disease activity in their patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Medscape spoke with Susan M. Goodman, MD, a rheumatologist at the ...

Achieving complete freedom from RA symptoms may differ from a doctor’s medical assessment of remission, which involves evaluating numerical markers and imaging studies. Early and aggressive treatment ...

Being able to quantify a surface finish is both a complex and necessary task. While surface topography relates to a three-dimensional property, the most accepted surface measurement parameter is ...

Radiographic joint damage, usually assessed with the Sharp or Larsen scoring systems, is the only established outcome measure for evaluating inflammation-related bone damage in patients with ...

Interviews conducted with patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) revealed 6 important aspects of daily life that are rarely measured in RA research. For patients with long-term rheumatoid arthritis ...

Pollution caused by fire smoke has been linked to higher risk of rheumatoid arthritis-interstitial lung disease (RA-ILD). The study, which appears in Arthritis & Rheumatology, measured levels of ...

depressed woman, sad woman, middle aged woman in pain Researchers evaluated the frequency of depression and anxiety in early RA and explored the association its disease-related measures. High disease ...

A vast majority of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) experienced at least one objectively-measured sleep disorder, and some of those disorders were significantly associated with greater clinical ...

Calprotectin is released by activated granulocytes and monocytes/macrophages in arthritic joints. Levels of calprotectin measured in patients' synovial fluid significantly correlate with levels ...