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The Good News – Bad News About Triple Therapy

For whatever reason, I’ve lately been reading a lot about the effectiveness of triple therapy for rheumatoid arthritis. The triple-therapy study was first presented at the European League Against Rheumatism Congress 2013 and published online June 2013 in the New England Journal of Medicine to coincide with the presentation.

Triple therapy, which consists of three well-established DMARDs: sulfasalazine (a sulfa drug), hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil), and methotrexate, was shown to have comparable benefits to a combination biologic/methotrexate therapy. These benefits included disease measures, function, and radiographic progression. All this boils down to saying the triple-DMARD therapy…

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 The Good News – Bad News About Triple Therapy

The bottom line is that it’s great that there is apparently an effective therapy using well-known, older drugs. I’m all for treatments that work regardless of the form they take including drug therapy, natural supplements, diet, exercise, or a combination thereof. If it slows down or stops RA (without also killing or maiming the patient), I’m all for it. What I don’t want is the economic or other factors somehow interfering with the doctor-patient relationship that should be primary in prescribing a treatment plan.

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