OBJECTIVES:: To educate scientists and health care providers about the effects ofcorticosteroids
on bone, and advise clinicians of the appropriate treatments for patients receiving …

The pharmacokinetics of oral gold (auranofin) in some respects resemble, and in other respects
differ from, those of existing parenteral gold compounds such as gold sodium thiomalate …

The peripheral joint radiographs of 55 carefully selected patients with classic progressive
systemic sclerosis (PSS) and 10 patients with CREST syndrome were reviewed in a …

Piroxicam kinetics were studied after a single, oral, 20‐mg capsule was taken by 12 young (six
women, six men) and 13 elderly (seven women, six men) healthy subjects. Plasma …

Objective. To determine the proportion of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) under
rheumatologic care treated with disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARD) within 6 months …

The features and clinical course in 38 patients (25 women, 13 men) who had chronic
monarthritis of undetermined origin (UCM) were surveyed over a mean followup period of 24.6 …

Objective. To describe early rheumatologic management for newly diagnosed rheumatoid
arthritis (RA) in Canada. Methods. A retrospective cohort of 339 randomly selected patients …

: Headache is a frequent occurrence in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). We
present two cases of young women with headache and papilledema. One patient had this …

Radiographs were reviewed of the chest, hands, and feet of 55 patients with progressive
systemic sclerosis. These patients had been selected so as to exclude overlap syndromes, …

Tolerance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to antibiotics contributes to the long duration of
tuberculosis (TB) treatment and the emergence of drug-resistant strains. M. tuberculosis drug …