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How to Manage Polymyalgia Rheumatica

  |  Issue: December 2015  |  

“However, the guidelines also acknowledge that individual dose-tapering schedules are needed and that there is no ‘one size fits all’ dose in management of this condition,” he adds.

Mary Beth Nierengarten is a freelance medical journalist based in St. Paul, Minn.

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