Are you struggling with persistent pain and stiffness in your shoulders, neck or hips beyond the usual aches and pains of aging? Polymyalgia rheumatica, a common inflammatory rheumatic disease ...

Are you waking up in the morning with stiff hips, back and neck? You might want to get yourself checked for Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR). PMR is a condition characterized by inflammation that leads to ...

PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sparrow Pharmaceuticals today presented data from an ongoing Phase 2 clinical trial of HSD-1 inhibitor clofutriben (SPI-62) and prednisolone in patients with ...

Background: the mainstay of treatment of polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is oral glucocorticoids, but randomized controlled trials of treatment are lacking. As a result, there is no evidence from ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “If providers treating PMR are having difficulty tapering people off steroids without concomitant ...

In patients with relapsing polymyalgia rheumatica, sarilumab with a rapid glucocorticoid taper regimen of 14 weeks led to greater improvements in patient-reported outcomes of health-related quality of ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I was recently diagnosed with polymyalgia rheumatica after weeks of intense muscle pain. I’m a 67-year-old female in otherwise good health. My doctor prescribed prednisone, which ...

Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is a systemic inflammatory disorder that predominantly affects individuals over the age of 50. It is characterised by pain and stiffness in the shoulder and hip girdles, ...

An arthritis drug may allow people to reduce use of steroids. * THE QUESTION Steroids are the treatment of choice for the widespread muscle pain and stiffness associated with the inflammatory disorder ...