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In the modern frenzy for compressing a clinician's expensive time with patients, and for the sake of precision and convenience, we can expect the new method to see increasing use. In addition to its pro-inflammatory properties, it exerts deleterious effects on bone remodeling, promoting progressive structural joint damage. The biotechnology industry has now developed two neutralizing agents. As therapies for rheumatoid arthritis, both have been found to be beneficial and are approved for that indication. Two recently published controlled trials compared them with methotrexate, the current standard disease-modifying agent.