Certain Arthritis Drugs May Double Your Risk of Getting Shingles
Posted on August 11, 2009 by DFHS Article Team
Some of the powerful new drugs that offer relief to rheumatoid arthritis sufferers may increase risk of a different kind of suffering: shingles. Members of a class of drugs called TNF-alpha blockers nearly doubled the risk of herpes zoster, better known as shingles, among rheumatoid arthritis sufferers in a 5,040-patient German study. Read More













