Study: No Benefit to Costly Arthritis Drugs

Courtesy WebMD Health  Wed, 10/21/2009 - 16:44

For many people with rheumatoid arthritis, the much cheaper traditional, disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) appear to work just as well as newer TNF blockers that target the underlying disease process, a large study shows.

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