Biologic drugs, made mainly from antibodies, have transformed the approach to treating chronic inflammatory diseases such as asthma and rheumatoid arthritis. We explore their mechanisms and potential.

You just finished a satisfying summer hike or wrapped up a weekend of yard work when you spot a tick clinging to your clothes ...

Women with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) face higher CVD-related mortality rates than do men, according to recently published research.

Functional MRI studies have established that subjective feelings of pain and fatigue have objective correlates in terms of ...

Oklahoma Proton Center and its partner, Oklahoma Cancer Center, are proud to be one of just a handful of locations in the ...

Federal budget cuts have created "a climate of anxiety" among medical researchers, says Maximilian F. Konig, a rheumatologist ...

Patients with inflammatory bowel disease may be twice as likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis than those without IBD.

We’ve all heard that chronic stress is bad for our health. And people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) know all too well that when you’re under stress you’re more likely to have a flare. But ...

Dietary changes are, of course, the key to losing weight, but tweaking your eating habits can also help control arthritis symptoms. That’s because while osteoarthritis is primarily caused by ...

Metabolic syndrome is common in psoriatic arthritis and is a known risk factor for worse symptoms and poor treatment outcomes. This study sought to explore the syndrome's role in a more precisely ...