(MedPage Today) -- The news in rheumatology this week included reports on knee replacements in the Dominican Republic, outcomes with scleroderma overlap disease, and reasons for switching maintenance therapy in lupus.

(MedPage Today) -- The notion of using anti-HIV drugs, specifically Truvada, to prevent people from catching the virus -- so-called pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP -- has been around and under study for several years. Do new guidelines signal a chang...

(MedPage Today) -- Patients diagnosed with early rheumatoid arthritis who were overweight were less likely to achieve rapid disease control, Swedish researchers found.

(MedPage Today) -- SILVER SPRING, Md. -- Patients starting on the sleep drug eszopiclone (Lunesta) should take no more than 1 mg at bedtime -- one-third the current label-recommended dose -- because of the risk of next-day impairment, the FDA said Thur...

LAS VEGAS (MedPage Today) -- Obese patients who continue to have "thyroid symptoms" even when their levels are normalized may have a hypothalamic dysfunction, researchers reported here.

(MedPage Today) -- Exercise is good for the heart, but too much of a good thing could be bad for healthy adults and patients with cardiovascular disease, according to two observational studies that suggest a J shaped curve for the dose-response effects...

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(MedPage Today) -- Statements placing the adverse event rate associated with statin use at 18% to 20% have been withdrawn from two papers published in BMJ last year.