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NICE updates guidance for managing RA

NICE has set out updated advice on managing RA, with new recommendations on treatment, the aim of tr...

Contraceptive pill linked to reduced risk of rheumatoid arthritis

Taking oral contraceptive for seven or more consecutive years is linked to a 19% lower risk of devel...

Eating a lot of salt and smoking can raise the risk of arthritis (Photo: Jason Heath Lancy)

Salty food and smoking doubles arthritis risk, warn researchers

Smokers who eat a diet high in salt have double the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis, researc...

Delays: the rheumatoid factor test may miss cases of arthritis (Photo: SPL)

RA diagnosis delayed by reliance on key test, GPs told

GPs should not rely on the rheumatoid factor (RF) test to rule out arthritis, experts have said, aft...

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis more often had hypertension

Rheumatoid arthritis increases fatal blood clot risk

Rheumatoid arthritis greatly increases the risk of potentially fatal blood clots, despite not being ...

Dr Louise Warburton: disappointed with delays in arthritis treatment (Photo: NTI)

GPs back bid to speed up rheumatoid arthritis diagnoses

Plans to pay hospitals to accelerate the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis following a GP referral h...

Scotland approves psoriatic arthritis drug

GPs in Scotland can now prescribe golimumab for treating psoriatic arthritis on the NHS after it was...

Lack of research undermines GP diagnosis of polymyalgia

Early diagnosis of the most common inflammatory rheumatic disorder seen by GPs is being hindered by ...

Arthritis drug may cut plaques (Photograph: SPL)

Arthritis drug can lower CHD risk by blocking plaques

A rheumatoid arthritis drug could be used to prevent CHD, according to researchers who have identifi...

Deformed fingers of the hands in an elderly female patient with rheumatoid arthritis (Photograph: SPL)

NICE approves golimumab for rheumatoid arthritis

Patients in England can now access golimumab for rheumatoid arthritis on the NHS, NICE has ruled, bu...

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