Nearly half of patients admitted to the hospital for ankylosing spondylitis (AS) are discharged to somewhere other than home…
Articles by Margarida Maia PhD
While some people with recent-onset axial spondyloarthritis whose joint damage isn’t visible on an X-ray will progress within 10 years to ankylosing…
Adding Xeljanz (tofacitinib) to treatment with biologic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) when these medications aren’t working well may help…
High blood levels of two microRNAs, a type of small molecule involved in controlling which genes are turned…
A gene called NAT10 is less active in blood cells from people with new-onset ankylosing spondylitis…
Two or more comorbidities affected nearly half of the ankylosing spondylitis (AS) patients in a large study of the disease,…
People with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) who report more severe pain and disease activity, and poorer quality of life, continue…
A man with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) went into disease remission within three months of receiving BCD-180, an experimental antibody…
Note: This story was updated Oct. 31, 2023, to clarify that opioid use correlates with, rather than causes, an increased…
Children with one or more older siblings are up to 34% as likely as those who don’t have older siblings…