Immunostimulant therapy for rheumatoid arthritis

Gene therapy for rheumatoid arthritis?

Specific Therapy for Rheumatoid Arthritis

THE term 'specific' is used to describe the effects of drugs like gold and penicillamine in rheumatoid arthritis. This type of action is to be distinguished from the effects of 'nonspecific' or symptomatic therapy, for example with analgesic and anti-inflammatory drugs. In rheumatoid arthritis, specific drugs act not only on pain and inflammatory manifestations like swelling and stiffness, but ...

Antiinflammatory therapy for rheumatoid arthritis?

Glucocorticoids, since their spectacular introduction into clinical medicine in 1948 (1), remain a classically efficient treatment for arthritis and other inflammatory conditions (2). Indeed, the discoverers of this therapy were awarded an immediate Nobel Prize. Since then, glucocorticoids have remained a cornerstone in the treatment of chronic inflammation, and despite the introduction of nove...

Gene therapy for rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis

Rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis