Drug Development Executive

Drug Development Executive

Clinical/Medical

Inflammatory Hand Osteoarthritis is a Critical Unmet Medical Need

What do we drug developers need to do?

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Eswar Krishnan, MD
Jun 01, 2025
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Let's start with a working definition: an unmet medical need describes a situation where no satisfactory method of diagnosis, prevention, or treatment exists for a condition. Or, if such methods do exist, a new approach would offer a significant therapeutic advantage. This perfectly encapsulates the current state of hand osteoarthritis (HOA), a common a…

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