The discovery of corticosteroids at Mayo Clinic earned the Nobel Prize in 1950. A new Mayo study shows they are still a common treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, even as newer drugs with fewer side effects emerge. The proportion of patients on the drugs at any given point in their rheumatoid arthritis is actually higher than it used to be, the study found. Mayo Clinic rheumatology chair Eric Matteson, M.D., explains.
