There is an air of desperation surrounding treatment for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). With every new failure to come up with a drug that can reliably prevent progression of the disease, medicine grows bolder, experimenting with ever more powerful--and...
The COX-2 inhibitors are not the only arthritis drugs under scrutiny at the moment. The US Food and Drug Administration is also taking a good hard look at the tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-blocking drugs, also used to treat rheumatoid arthritis...