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Cancer Immunotherapy Poses No Increased Risk for Autoimmune Reactions in Patients with Sjogren’s Syndrome

Patients with an underlying rheumatic disease, including Sjogren’s syndrome, are not at higher risk for adverse effects when receiving cancer immunotherapies – called immune checkpoint inhibitors – than the rest of the population, according to the results of a Mayo Clinic study. The report, “Cancer immunotherapy in patients…

Sjögren Syndrome Patients Show Early Signs of Hearing Loss, Study Finds

Women with Sjögren syndrome show particularly high levels of hearing loss and language recognition impairments compared to healthy women or those with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), study reports. The research, “Early hearing loss detection in rheumatoid arthritis and primary Sjögren syndrome using extended high frequency audiometry,” was published in the…