Credit: Getty Images. Avacopan plus rituximab offers a superior remission rate at 52 weeks and lower risk of relapse compared with prednisone taper plus rituximab, with a similar safety profile.

Avacopan was safe and effective among patients with respiratory tract manifestations of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis. Avacopan shows promising efficacy and safety among ...

In a single-center, single-arm, open-label pilot study, 30 adults (mean age, 73.7 years) with GCA received 162 mg of tocilizumab as a subcutaneous injection once a week for 52 weeks, plus prednisone ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. To compare avacopan (CCX168, ChemoCentryx) with a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Although patients with lupus nephritis may require prednisone maintenance, attempts should be made to reduce ...

Topline data were announced from a phase 3 trial evaluating secukinumab in patients with polymyalgia rheumatica.

I’d become an eating machine with a loathsome attitude on prednisone, so I decided to conduct my own taper of the drug. Four months after my allogeneic bone marrow transplant, I left the Stanford ...

While not used to guide treatment, ESR and CRP typically normalize within two to four weeks after initiating therapy. 2,4 Minor increases in ESR can occur during the prednisone taper, but this does ...

Credit: Getty images. Study authors assessed whether the addition of a prednisone taper could decrease opioid use in patients undergoing tonsillectomy, tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy, or expansion ...

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Immune Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:IMNP) a biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutic agents for the treatment of immunologic and inflammatory ...