‘Creativity’ needed for treatment of difficult RA symptoms, speaker says

CHICAGO — Daniel Furst, MD, a Carl Pearson Professor of Medicine and director of the Rheumatology Clinical Research Center at the University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine, said rheumatologists need to “get creative” in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and use the best-known data to combine therapies for patients with symptoms that are difficult to resolve.Some combinations of disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) and biologic therapies make more sense than others, depending on their effects and side effects, according to Furst.