Ultrasound is transforming the way arthritis is diagnosed and treated, making evaluation and treatment quicker and more accurate. The new approach is dubbed fast arthritis sonographic evaluation and treatment, or FAST, by rheumatologists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center who are leading its development.

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GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE:GSK) is strengthening its drug pipeline with an experimental arthritis treatment from drug partner ChemoCentryx. The pharmaceutical giant has exercised an option for an exclusive license to develop ChemoCentryx’s investigational drug CCX354, which recently produced positive phase 2 clinical trial results in a study of patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Under terms of the ...

One of five Americans has been diagnosed with some type of arthritis.

The treatment has proved successful in animal studies conducted by the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel, and it is hoped the breakthrough could lead to new ways of tackling a range of conditions.