Anti-TNF Therapy Reduces Hospital Visits and Surgeries for People with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Saturday, November 10, 2012 - 17:30
in Health & Medicine
According to research presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., prescribing anti-tumor necrosis factor drugs (also called anti-TNF) to treat rheumatoid arthritis may reduce the requirement for hospital admissions. The study also found that using anti-TNF therapy significantly reduced the need for hip and knee surgery procedures, resulting in more than $21 million in overall Irish health care cost savings.