Wednesday 6 August 2008

New Guidelines For Treating Rheumatoid Arthritis

�Proven combinations of medicines and the introduction of new anti-arthritis drugs have significantly improved the handling of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), according to guidelines issued by the American College of Rheumatology and co-authored by physicians at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).




Lead author Kenneth Saag, M.D., M.Sc., a professor in the UAB Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, said the new guidelines update strategies for treating RA with the goal of preventing joint wrong and disability.




The new recommendations do non strive to replace individualized medical decisions, Saag aforementioned. Instead, they are meant to