UAB Creates National Network to Advance Personalized Medicine in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - 10:43
in Health & Medicine
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is spearheading an effort to create a national database and repository to enable researchers to identify predictors of effectiveness of various treatments for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). RA is the most common type of inflammatory arthritis. Many effective medications exist, but they vary greatly in cost and side effects, and there is no way to predict which drug will work best on an individual.