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California Patient Advocacy Group Releases Guide On New Healthcare Reform Law Changes

SACRAMENTO, Calif., June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As millions of Californians prepare for the first open enrollment under the Affordable Care Act, Californians for Patient Care (CPC), a nonprofit patient-advocacy organization based in Sacramento, today released "Healthcare Coverage in 2014: Five Things Californians Should Know" to help people navigate the process and understand what the...

Scheduled exercise, regular meals and periodic warming relieve symptoms of osteoarthritis

Scheduled exercise, regular meals and the periodic warming and cooling of joints could be used to relieve the symptoms of osteoarthritis according to scientists at The University of Manchester. Their research may also help explain why older people ar...

Gold's Gym Prescribes Unique Workouts For TV's Most Notorious Dads

DALLAS, June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- TV dads – they've long been a staple of favorite prime time programming, dishing out fatherly advice for their TV families and viewers alike (for better or worse!).  This Father's Day, however, it's time for these dads to receive some advice of their own.  Gold's Gym, the leading authority on health and fitness, is prescribing a series of worko...

Celgene announces positive results from first phase III study of apremilast in psoriatic arthritis

Celgene International Sàrl, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Celgene Corporation, today announced 52-week results from PALACE 1, the Company's first phase III study in psoriatic arthritis at the European Congress of Rheumatology annual meeting in Madrid...

Savient Pharmaceuticals to Present New KRYSTEXXA® Data at the 2013 European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) Congress

BRIDGEWATER, N.J., June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: SVNT) today announced that ongoing KRYSTEXXA® (pegloticase) post-marketing surveillance data describing the long-term safety data for KRYSTEXXA will be presented at the 2013 EULAR Congress in Madrid, Spain June 12-15. The two posters describe a decrease in the rate of reported infusion reactions (IRs)...

Five-Year SIMPONI Data Reported In Treatment Of Signs And Symptoms Of Moderately To Severely Active Rheumatoid Arthritis

MADRID, June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Janssen Biotech, Inc. announced today new five-year data from three pivotal Phase 3 studies evaluating SIMPONI® (golimumab) 50 mg administered subcutaneously once every four weeks in the treatment of moderately to severely active rheumatoid arthritis (RA).  The new findings from open-label, long-term extensions of the pivotal registration trials...

US Peptides Discusses HGH and Growth Hormone Releasing Peptides and How They Affect Performance

MIAMI, June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- The Human Growth Hormone, abbreviated as HGH, functions much like it sounds. The hormone stimulates growth, cell reproduction, and regeneration of bones and tissue in humans. Produced naturally by the pituitary gland, the hormone is a protein made out of 190 amino acids that is secreted into the bloodstream. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire...

ABLYNX TO PRESENT DATA ON ITS ANTI-IL-6R NANOBODY, ALX-0061, AT THE ANNUAL EUROPEAN CONGRESS OF RHEUMATOLOGY

GHENT, Belgium, 12 June 2013 - Ablynx [Euronext Brussels: ABLX] today announced that it will have an oral and poster presentation on its novel anti-IL-6R Nanobody, ALX-0061, at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR), which takes place from 12 to 15 June 2013 in Madrid, Spain. The oral presentation will demonstrate the strong efficacy and safety profile of ALX-0061 at the 24 week...

New Data Improves Sales Outlook For Celgene's Apremilast

SUMMIT, NJ (TheStreet) -- Celgene's strong stock performance this year started with the release of bullish, long-term (2017) guidance in early January. While Street estimates are generally close to Celgene's own forecasts, the biggest difference is with sales expectations for apremilast, the company's new oral drug for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. Celgene's guidance implies about $1.5 to $...

Austin Dentist Dr. John Schmid Receives Fellow Designation From LVI Global

Dr. John Schmid was recently awarded the designation of Fellow by The Las Vegas Institute of Advanced Dental Studies (LVI Global). Austin, TX (PRWEB) June 12, 2013 The Las Vegas Institute of Advanced Dental Studies (LVI Global) has officially awarded Austin dentist Dr. John Schmid the designation of Fellow. The LVI Fellow distinction is given when a dentist has completed LVI’s Core Series, demo...

"Youth Hormone" Formula SeroVital®-hgh Poised to Steal the Show at Renowned Pituitary Conference

SAN FRANCISCO, June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- It seems everyone's talking about human growth hormone (hGH) these days. CNN, Fox News, The Today Show, The Dr. Oz Show, Shape magazine… even Vanity Fair have all done features on hGH. And many of Hollywood's "elite" have been visiting some of the most expensive clinics in the world for controversial hGH therapy. Why? Because they believe hum...

Ablynx to Present Data on Its Anti-IL-6R Nanobody, ALX-0061, at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology

GHENT, BELGIUM -- (Marketwired) -- 06/12/13 -- Ablynx (EURONEXT BRUSSELS: ABLX) today announced that it will have an oral and poster presentation on its novel anti-IL-6R Nanobody, ALX-0061, at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR), which takes place from 12 to 15 June 2013 in Madrid, Spain. The oral presentation will demonstrate the strong efficacy and safety profile of ALX-0061...

Joints other than big toe linked to higher risk of gout flare-ups

Gout is usually associated with pain and inflammation in the big toe joints, but a new study suggests that problems with other joints may in fact provide a better indication of a patient's risk of flare-ups.Researchers at the Mayo Clinic in the US followed 46 people with gout - 70 per cent of whom were men - for an average of 13 years.Participants had typically developed gout at around 66 year...

EULAR honors outstanding contributions to rheumatology

(European League Against Rheumatism) EULAR today announced the recipients of the 13th annual Meritorious Service Award at the opening of the European League Against Rheumatism Annual Congress. The award recognizes a lifetime of achievement for Profes...

EULAR 2013 highlights

(European League Against Rheumatism) The launch of the European Rheumatology Research Foundation was today announced at EULAR 2013, the Annual Congress of the European League Against Rheumatism.

AAV Genome Loss From Dystrophic Mouse Muscles During AAV-U7 snRNA-mediated Exon-skipping Therapy

ORENCIA® (abatacept) Shows Comparable Efficacy to Humira® (adalimumab) in Year Two Data from Head-to-Head Study in Patients with Moderate to Severe Rheumatoid Arthritis

AMPLE Study results highlighted during a press conference at the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) Annual congress Year 2 data shows similar efficacy between ORENCIA plus methotrexate (MTX) and Humira plus MTX, consistent with the year 1 result which demonstrated comparable efficacy based on a non-inferiority endpoint for A...

Body clocks linked to osteoarthritis

Scheduled exercise, regular meals and the periodic warming and cooling of joints could be used to relieve the symptoms of osteoarthritis according to scientists. Their research may also help explain why older people are more prone to developing this...

New research links body clocks to osteoarthritis

Scheduled exercise, regular meals and the periodic warming and cooling of joints could be used to relieve the symptoms of osteoarthritis according to scientists at The University of Manchester. Their research may also help explain why older people ar...

Broken Bones a Signal to Screen Women for Abuse (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- One in six women treated at fracture clinics reported being victims of domestic violence over the preceding 12 months, and one in 50 said their current injuries were caused by a partner, according to a large, multinational study...

Big toe isn't biggest culprit in gout flare-ups; other joints tied to higher risk

The painful rheumatic condition gout is often associated with the big toe, but it turns out that patients at highest risk of further flare-ups are those whose gout first involved other joints, such as a knee or elbow, Mayo Clinic has found. The study...

Less and lower-dose CT imaging of children could reduce cancer cases, researchers say

CC/Flickr/Thirteen of ClubsCT scans, which generate cross-sectional images of the bones and soft tissues in the body, deliver ionizing radiation doses that are 100 to 500 times higher than conventional X-rays.The estimated 4 million computed tomography (CT) scans that are given each year to children under the age of 15 in the United States result in almost 5,000 future cases of cancer, accord

UOL Brazil Features the Health Benefits of Walking While Working with a TrekDesk Treadmill Desk

UOL, the largest online Portuguese portal in the world, features the TrekDesk Treadmill Desk. Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) June 11, 2013 Obesity and ill health are not the sole domain of the United States. In fact, every developed country in the world today faces an epidemic rise in obesity caused primarily by sedentary work environments. As a result, any potential solution to the problem is receiving int...

Choosing a Biologic in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Dr. Kay summarizes recent comparative effectiveness trials of biologic therapy for RA. Medscape Rheumatology

Patient Compliance – Cracking that Big Nut!

Précis:  In this month’s column we look at the issue of non-adherence, the risk of bias in adherence surveys and how a better understanding of true patient behavior is critical to improving complia...