Methotrexate dampens the immune response to vaccines, and a recent study showed that discontinuing treatment for 1 week instead of 2 worked just as well for patients with rheumatoid arthritis getting ...

Methotrexate belongs to a class of drugs called antimetabolites. This type of drug slows the growth of skin cells or cancer cells and suppresses the immune system. In addition to treating rheumatoid ...

New research presented this week at ACR Convergence 2022, the American College of Rheumatology's annual meeting, showed that discontinuing methotrexate for one week after seasonal influenza ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with psoriasis taking methotrexate were 2.8 times more likely to develop nonmelanoma skin cancer than ...

The use of low-dose methotrexate among older adults with chronic kidney disease (CKD) was associated with a significantly increased risk at 90 days for serious adverse events requiring a hospital ...

Patients with psoriasis taking methotrexate are nearly 3 times as likely to develop non-melanoma skin cancer than patients not taking the treatment. Patients with psoriasis who are treated with ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Previous findings that adding methotrexate to pegloticase (Krystexxa) in patients with gout was more effective than pegloticase alone have now been extended to a full year of treatment ...

Adding methotrexate to adalimumab (Humira) in axial spondyloarthritis was associated with reduced immunogenicity, as shown by a lower rate of developing antidrug antibodies, French researchers ...

When Becky Schwarz saw the message in her patient portal saying she could no longer receive a prescription for methotrexate to treat her lupus, she felt surprised. It was only six days after the U.S.

Glucarpidase may improve kidney function and other sequelae in patients with methotrexate-induced acute kidney injury. High-dose methotrexate frequently causes acute kidney injury (MTX-AKI), ...

NEW YORK — Intravitreal methotrexate injections can reduce the need for reoperation after surgery for retinal detachment, even in eyes with complex pathology, researchers say. "The main goal of this ...