Twenty doses of outpatient HD-MTX with glucarpidase were administered to seven patients. After 20 of 20 (100%) treatments, serum MTX levels were reduced to <100 nmol/L. Treatments were well-tolerated, ...

The intracellular polyglutamation of methotrexate (MTX) is emerging as a crucial biochemical process in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) therapy. MTX polyglutamates (MTX-PGs) are metabolites formed by the ...

Methotrexate is a strong medicine. The FDA approved it to treat adults with severe, disabling psoriasis that cannot be controlled with medicine applied to the skin or light treatments. Methotrexate ...

In July 2022, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expanded the labeling of Krystexxa (pegloticase; Horizon Therapeutics), a PEGylated uric acid-specific enzyme, to include coadministration with ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA has approved the supplemental biologics license application for pegloticase, expanding the drug’s label ...

Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. Soon after she started taking the drug methotrexate in February, Jennifer Crow noticed a significant improvement in her ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved concomitant use of the biologic pegloticase (Krystexxa) and methotrexate to lower serum uric acid levels (sUA) in patients with chronic gout.

Subcutaneous tocilizumab, either as monotherapy or in combination with methotrexate, demonstrated greater efficacy than methotrexate alone and was well tolerated in patients with active rheumatoid ...