Since 70 % of people with fibromyalgia are on more than one medication, drug interactions are an important consideration, says Andrew J Holman MD,
clinical rheumatologist and associate clinical professor of medicine at the University of Washington.
Not exact matches
Initial results were discouraging: attempts to simply replace the protein therapies with small - molecule drugs that hit the same targets largely failed, says Saeed Fatenejad, a
rheumatologist at Pfizer who is responsible for
clinical development of tasocitinib.
A Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
rheumatologist and a
clinical psychologist at the University of Michigan's Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center reviewed the impact back pain had on the life and death of the 35th president.
Whilst established to examine possible safety issues with biologic therapies, it provides the opportunity to look at additional benefits beyond the direct effect on disease severity,» explains William Dixon, MD, MRC clinician scientist / senior
clinical lecturer and honorary consultant
rheumatologist; Arthritis Research UK Epidemiology Unit, The University of Manchester; and an investigator in the study.
It is aimed at
rheumatologists and
clinical nurse specialists in lupus, as well as nephrologists, immunologists, dermatologists, emergency medicine practitioners and GPs.
When they heard about the rise in narcolepsy in 2010, neuroscientist Lawrence Steinman of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and
rheumatologist Sohail Ahmed, who at the time was global head of
clinical sciences at Novartis's vaccines and diagnostics division in Siena, Italy, began scouring databases for proteins expressed in the brain that might resemble those in the vaccine.
Rheumatologists at the University of Verona, Italy discovered that L - carnitine improved the mood and lessened muscular pain in fibromyalgia patients during a
clinical study conducted in 2007.
In the article, Sharon Kolasinski, MD, professor of
clinical medicine and a
rheumatologist at the University of Pennsylvania states: