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Three years ago today, I typed my first blog post in my back yard on a whim. My daughter had started to blog – what’s to worry about – just do it! Before that, I’d been working on ideas for months. I did have a goal: to build a website where RA patients could find [...]
After the tofacitinib FDA hearing, the votes are in, false perceptions persist, and patients still need relief. Some estimate that tofacitinib could be approved by the US FDA within a few months after mixed votes and mostly inaccurate press reports. It’s fitting this discussion takes place as rawarrior.com begins its fourth year of reporting the [...]
Sightseeing, small steps, and sleep I’ve spent most of the last 3 weeks lying down with ice on my neck, or taking extra meds for the back spasms. The night before the FDA tofacitinib hearing, my back got so bad that I was about 90% certain that I would not be able to attend. My [...]
Advisory Committee hearing feed link My daughter Katie Beth and I are in Washington, DC for the final FDA Arthritis Advisory Committee (AAC) hearing about Pfizer’s JAK, tofacitinib. Early in the morning, Katie Beth and I will be en route to the meeting. The AAC meeting will be broadcast online with a live feed. We’ve [...]
Three years ago, one of the first friends I made through my blog was Angie. She got into a Pfizer clinical trial for tofacitinib (then called tasocitinib). She sent me some info about the trial, but my rheum doc wasn’t interested and I didn’t pursue it. The current excitement about Pfizer’s tofacitinib Tofacitinib is an [...]
RESPONSE TO Consumer Reports Health Best Buy Drugs; Evaluating Prescription Drugs Used to Treat the Symptoms of Rheumatoid Arthritis: The Biologics Warrior to Washington: Next week, I’m going to D.C. to make an oral presentation to the “Arthritis Advisory Committee” at a hearing about a new Rheumatoid Arthritis treatment, tofacitinib. I want you to know [...]
RA Warrior has never done product reviews, but I said yes to this easy contest because I get to give away sets of six kitchen tools to 2 of my wonderful readers. So, play our game to see if you can win! You can always give the tools away if you don’t need them. The [...]
Understanding the reality of the disease is only half the battle We are making progress. Although there’s still a long way to go, patients are playing a part of advancements toward more complete understanding of Rheumatoid Arthritis as a disease. We might suppose that once RA is more widely understood to be a systemic disease, [...]
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