The anti-TNF revolution in ankylosing spondylitis

Schachna, Lionel

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2004.tb06436.x

Patients with severe disease now have access to promising new drugs

To have lived through a revolution, to have seen a new birth of science, a new dispensation of health . . . is not given to every generation.
– William Osler (1913)

Austin Spondylitis Centre, Austin Health, Heidelberg, VIC.

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