SAN DIEGO — Erinn Maury knew Remicade wasn't the right drug for Patti Schulte, a rheumatoid arthritis patient the physician saw at her Millersville, Maryland, practice. Schulte's swollen, painful ...

Equipped with a blood test capable of predicting an individual’s response—or lack thereof—to the world’s largest drug class, Scipher Medicine is on its way to cracking the code of rheumatoid arthritis ...

A rheumatoid factor test checks for an antibody that can be a marker for rheumatoid arthritis. It is one part of diagnosis. Not everyone with a positive rheumatoid factor blood test has rheumatoid ...

Oct. 28, 2003 (Orlando) -- The presence of antibodies to cyclic citrullinated peptides (CCP) may accurately predict the likelihood of developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in patients with recent-onset ...

About 1.5 million Americans suffer from rheumatoid arthritis, a chronic disease in which the immune system attacks healthy cells, typically around the joints, causing swelling and deformity. Generally ...

RA is an autoimmune disease where the immune system mistakenly attacks the lining of joints, causing inflammation and potential joint damage. Treatment goals for RA include reducing inflammation and ...

A simple blood test could determine which drug and dosage is more likely to be effective against rheumatoid arthritis, potentially saving sufferers serious side effects and Australian taxpayers ...

Cathepsin B belongs to a family of lysosomal cysteine proteases (enzymes that break down proteins) present inside the cell.

Kim Kardashian got tested for lupus on Sunday night's season 17 premiere of Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Kim said she'd been experiencing numbness in her hands and other symptoms. Kim tested ...

Erinn Maury knew Remicade wasn’t the right drug for Patti Schulte, a rheumatoid arthritis patient the physician saw at her Millersville, Maryland, practice. Schulte’s swollen, painful joints hadn’t ...