Methotrexate (drug)

By Bill Berkrot June 11 (Reuters) - Celgene Corp's experimental drug for psoriatic arthritis maintained its ability to significantly reduce painful symptoms through 52 weeks of treatment, according to data from a late stage study being presented this...

How are your microbes doing today? Yes, your personalized, bazillion little bacteria working their magic in your stomach and intestines and -- if you're to believe many recent reports -- may be causing you problems with auto-immune issues. What's an...

When Graham Crawford was 11, he was a bit overweight and had to battle psoriasis, a skin disease that left red scaly patches on his nose and fingers. His skin cleared up after he started using ointment designed to fight psoriasis. But when he stopped...

Q: I'm only 19, but my hair is about 40 percent gray. Why is this and what can I do about it? A: You are young to have gray hair, but it happens. And usually there's not much you can do about it. Hair turns gray when cells (called melanocytes) in hair...

The girl and the firefighter lived in the same part of town, the Mount Greenwood neighborhood on the Far Southwest Side of Chicago, a neighborhood of cops, firefighters and city workers. The Mayoskis live there. And so do the Beazleys, and although there...

Q: My 70-year old sister has had dermatomyositis for more than a year. Her muscles, joints, skin and lungs have been affected. She has not responded well to treatment with steroids. Are there any alternatives? I read somewhere about transfusions of immune...

A host of prescription drugs have been in low supply around the United States for some time, but doctors have been warning about a particularly acute shortage of a set of life-saving cancer drugs. Now the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said today that...

It's not enough that we simply have to worry about the fat that's increasingly growing around our bellies. Americans should also be concerned about the fat that they can't see: the stuff that's filling up their livers, more commonly known as Nonalcoholic...

The last few weeks media have been full of stories about a severe shortage of a chemotherapy drug -- preservative-free methotrexate -- used to treat childhood leukemia. Does that hold true locally in Hampton Roads? Calls to local health systems found...

8 year old Ian Lemus loves to read. He's feeling better because of the cancer drug Methotrexate. Last March he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The drug made his hair fall out--but it's kept him alive and is near the end of his...

The Food and Drug Administration has moved to increase the supplies of two needed cancer-treatment drugs and on Tuesday issued a draft guidance on how to cope with the problem of drug shortages. The federal agency announced that it will temporarily allow...