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On May 7th, the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) hosted its annual Capitol Hill fly-in with rheumatology leaders nationwide to champion the need for crucial reforms to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS). The goal is to enhance the payment system’s predictability and stability, ensuring continued access to care for patients by adequately supporting healthcare providers.
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Mashup Score: 2Does Good Sleep Prevent Osteoporosis | RheumNow - 15 hour(s) ago
As part of the University of Colorado Department of Medicine’s annual Research Day, held on April 23, faculty member Christine Swanson, MD, MCR, described her National Institutes of Health-funded clinical research on whether adequate sleep can help prevent osteoporosis.“Osteoporosis can occur for many reasons such as hormonal changes, aging, and lifestyle factors,” said Swanson, an associate professor in the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Diabetes. “But some patients I see don’t have an explanation for their osteoporosis.
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Mashup Score: 7Approaches for slowing organ damage progression in lupus | RheumNow - 17 hour(s) ago
Watch our videos featuring global rheumatology experts to learn about recent advances towards slowing organ damage progression in lupus. Discover how you can implement disease modification and remission treatment goals, alongside corticosteroid tapering and the earlier introduction of biologics, to help improve patient outcomes.
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An international cohort of children with systemic Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (Still’s disease) validated the systemic Juvenile Arthritis Disease Activity Score 10 (sJADAS10), a disease activity measure distinguish patients with inactive disease, minimal disease activity, moderate disease activity, and high disease activity.
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Mashup Score: 9Philip S Hench and the discovery of cortisone - 1 day(s) ago
This year, 2024, marks the 75th anniversary of the presentation of a landmark discovery in the biology and management of rheumatoid arthritis. On 13 April 1949, Philip S Hench (1896–1965) gave a lecture to an overfilled Mayo Clinic staff meeting in Rochester, Minnesota, USA, on observations of ‘The effect of a hormone of the adrenal cortex (17-hydroxy-11-dehydrocorticosterone: compound E) and of pituitary adrenocorticotropic hormone on rheumatoid arthritis’.1 The sensational results were soon known worldwide, making further headlines on 31 May 1949 when Hench presented a more complete report and motion pictures of treated patients at the Seventh International Congress of Rheumatic Diseases held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City (figure 1). As reported by physicians present at the lecture, excitement about an effective treatment, and possibly even cure of one of humankind’s most poorly understood and heretofore untreatable disease was greeted by the hundreds of attendees wit
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This cohort study examines the incidence of periprosthetic joint infection in patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty and total knee arthroplasty and the associations of preoperative and postoperative colonoscopy with periprosthetic joint infection.
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A 3-year-old had spontaneous gingival hemorrhage and bilateral limb weakness with inability to bear weight. He had no preceding oral trauma or recent infection, took no regular medications, and had no recent use of aspirin or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs; his diet was limited to primarily…
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Mashup Score: 12Multiplicative Adverse Effects of Social Determinants of Health in Lupus Nephritis: A Meta-analysis and Systematic Review | RheumNow - 3 day(s) ago
A metanalysis shows that social determinants of health adversely impacts patients with lupus nephritis. Lupus nephritis is a significant complication of SLE, often with dramatic increases in morbid and mortal risks. Outcomes are likely to be augmented by social determinants of health, including socio-economic status, and social risk factors.
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Positive findings with color Doppler ultrasound were enough to diagnose giant cell arteritis (GCA) accurately without need for confirmation with temporal artery biopsy (TAB), a prospective study indicated.Out of 165 older patients in whom GCA was strongly suspected, 73 (44%) had the telltale “halo” sign on temporal artery ultrasound; and of those, the GCA diagnosis was unchanged when re-examined 2 years later, according to Guillaume Denis, MD, of Centre Hospitalier Rochefort in France, and colleagues.
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Mashup Score: 6Featured BSR Abstracts (5.2.2024) | RheumNow - 3 day(s) ago
Dr. Jack Cush muses on the news, journal reports, FDA announcements and the 2024 BSR abstracts just released.
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Rheum Leaders on Capitol Hill Advocating for Medicare Payment Reform On May 7th, the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) hosted its annual Capitol Hill fly-in with rheumatology leaders nationwide to champion the need for crucial reforms to the MPFS. https://t.co/b4d1nVBape https://t.co/Sy1vSHwCHC