For people who have rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and for whom different treatments need to be tried before an effective one is found, it may seem treating RA is like taking a stab in the dark. Although it may seem like that, it’s not so. Diseases like RA are usually treated following a set of guidelines that have been developed over the years and, as new treatments are developed and older ones are refined or discarded, new guidelines are developed.
Recently, new guidelines or recommendations were issued by the American College of Rheumatology for the treatment of RA. The biggest issue in …read more