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Even if a psoriatic arthritis patient is in remission for more than 6 months, a completely drug free remission is not advisable, according to a study from Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.

A large review of national data indicates that suicide rates for adolescents and young adults appear to be higher in rural communities than in urban communities, regardless of the method, a disparity that seems to be increasing over time.

A new poll from the National Sleep Foundation reveals that pain joins two related concerns -- stress and poor health -- as key correlates of shorter sleep duration and worse sleep quality.

Patients suffering from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) who also have urinary calculi were recently found more likely to experience urinary tract infections, renal failure, and sepsis.

Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), deemed a more serious form of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) that can develop into liver fibrosis and cirrhosis, has been linked to the liver cancer-spiraling leaky intestinal wall, according to research in Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

Cold Spring Harbor (CSHL) in Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, NY announced an affiliation with North Shore LIJ Health System. The new alliance is meant to spur cancer research and bring experimental treatments to the bedside.

Although a lot of information about whiplash remains an ongoing investigation, special imaging has given researchers the ability to predict future chronic pain in victims earlier than ever.

As the need for biosensing platforms around the world becomes more critical, researchers have developed a phone-based application to detect diseases.

Joint Health has become an important issue in healthcare, and while there have been no reported adverse events with them they have not been widely accepted by the medical community.

With a mix of elderly and active people filling out the population joint health can be an important part of everyday life. Recent studies have shown that certain supplements can help keep joints healthy for these people and beyond.

A stepped-care intervention studied by researchers from the Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center in Indianapolis, the Regenstrief Institute and the Indiana University School of Medicine appears to statistically significantly improve pain-related disability among veterans of recent military operations.

Levothyroxine is typically given before breakfast but interest is growing in recommending bedtime administration. Bedtime administration may reduce the likelihood of high gastric pH, food interference, or drug interactions.

Researchers investigating symptoms in people with self-reported aspartame sensitivity could find no substantive psychological or metabolic response to aspartame.

While less than 25% of centers in the United States offer kidney transplants to those infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), those patients are proving to have better outcomes than others following the surgery.

Black tea is popular and often promoted as healthy. But drinking too may be an under-recognized cause of kidney damage, a physician team warns in a case reported in the New England Journal of Medicine. The patient, who drank 16 glasses of iced tea daily, had kidney failure due to oxalate accumulation.

Study results published in the March 10, 2015 issue of Nature Communications indicate that customizing a defense system used by bacteria and archaea to recognize HIV has brought researchers one step closer to creating a drug that could prevent HIV, treat patients already infected with HIV, and even remove dormant copies of the virus from patients with more advanced disease.

Tocilizumab was safe and effective for RA patients in comparison to tocilizumab plus DMARD therapy.

Rheumatoid arthritis-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension and idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension have similar survival rates, according to research published in Respirology.

Women with a history of depression could be more likely to develop gestational diabetes according to the results of a recent study.

Between relieving pain and speeding up recovery time after spinal surgery, a new study found various benefits associated with phone counseling.

Symptoms of delayed growth, weight loss, failure to gain weight, or persistent stomach pain coupled with diarrhea or bloody stools in children are often linked to undiagnosed inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), particularly Crohn's disease (CD).

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)Wednesday announced the approval of Teva's albuterol sulfate inhalation powder (ProairRespiClick), a breath-actuated, multi-dose, dry-powder, short-acting beta-agonist (SABA) inhaler for treating or preventing bronchospasm in patients 12 years and older suffering from reversible obstructive airway disease and for preventing exercise-induced bronchospasm (EIB) in patients 12 years and older.

What is currently considered to be the "gold standard" for post-shoulder surgery pain management may not be as effective as what once was believed.

While supplemental feeding of wildlife may seem beneficial for animals, a new study suggests that it has the potential to increase the spread of infectious diseases to humans.

Novartis announced the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Jadenu (deferasirox), a simplified treatment method for patients with chronic iron overload.

Male chronic pancreatitis patients receiving pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy are less likely to have osteopathy, according to research published in the Journal of the Pancreas.

As the use of long-term opioid therapy to treat chronic pain continues to be a hotly debated topic, a new study in PAIN analyzed the extent to which patients misuse their medications and the risk of addiction associated with these behaviors.

By using genetically modified corn, researchers are another step closer to an oral vaccine for hepatitis B, a virus that has infected almost two billion people worldwide.

The pain that typically accompanies osteoarthritis may be associated with excess mortality among middle-aged women, British scientists reported.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a strong warning on a drug used to treat iron deficiency anemia in patients with chronic kidney disease. Intravenous injections of ferumoxytol (Feraheme/Amag Pharmaceuticals) can cause serious allergic reactions including death in patients who are sensitive to the drug, the FDA cautioned in a new boxed warning. The drug was approved in 2009.