email article The oral JAK inhibitor upadacitinib (Rinvoq), approved for use in rheumatoid arthritis, also showed promise for psoriatic arthritis in a phase III trial comparing the drug with placebo and adalimumab (Humira). At week 12, 20% improvements on the criteria of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR20) were seen in 70.6% of patients receiving 15 mg daily of upadacitinib; 78.5% of those given 30 mg per day; 65% of those receiving subcutaneous adalimumab, 40 mg every other week; and 36.2% of those assigned to placebo, reported Iain B. McInnes, MD, PhD, of the University of Glasgow in Scotland, and colleagues. Both upadacitinib doses were noninferior to adalimumab on the ACR20 criteria, and the 30 mg dose was superior, the investigators reported in the study online in the