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April 22nd 2024
Prolonged modified fasting, in a multimodal medical approach, may help patients with fibromyalgia improve pain and psychosomatic symptoms.
"REEL" Time Patient Counseling™: Integrating Biosimilars into the Clinical Conversation
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Cases and Conversations™: Keeping Up with Novel Approaches to Managing ANCA-Associated Vasculitis
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EGPA: Highlighting the Patient Journey to Improve the Differential Diagnosis and Accelerate the Initiation of Guideline-Based Care
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Expert Illustrations & Commentaries™: Envisioning Novel Therapeutic Approaches to Managing ANCA-associated Vasculitis
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Do age and bone density alone predict fracture risk as well as FRAX?
January 29th 2010A simple model based on age and bone mineral density (BMD) alone may predict 10-year risk of hip, major osteoporotic, and any clinical fracture in older women as well as more complex fracture risk assessment tool (FRAX) models with BMD.
Use adult RA assessment tools for juvenile idiopathic arthritis?
January 29th 2010Continuous measures of disease activity used for assessment of adult rheumatoid arthritis may be valid measures in children with polyarticular-course juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). The scores may be valid in larger cohorts of children with polyarticular-course JIA that include children with early JIA and with varying degrees of disease severity.
Autoantibodies put patients on watch list for cardiovascular disease
January 29th 2010Both systemic inflammation and immune dysregulation, including autoantibody production, may occur even in the absence of autoimmune rheumatologic diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus.
Lupus an independent risk factor for coronary artery disease
January 28th 2010Women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are at increased risk for coronary artery disease (CAD) and mortality. The dominant risk factors are SLE itself, age, and high total triglyceride levels rather than the traditional Framingham risk factors.
New Ways to Use Social Networking Sites
USA Today has published an interesting opinion piece by Kevin Pho, MD, encouraging physicians to embrace social networking tools as a way to interact with patients. For me, the comments on the article were as interesting as the article itself.
Apple's iPad an Impressive Product in Need of Tweaking for Healthcare Success
January 28th 2010Apple's iPad is sleek, innovative, and should change the landscape of the tablet computer market going forward. But for all the things they got right, Apple has a few things to learn if it wants to become the the healthcare industry's tablet leader.
Psoriasis more severe, with more psychological effects, in minorities
January 28th 2010Psychological effects resulting from psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) are more likely to occur in African Americans, Asians, and Latinos than in whites, according to a recent National Psoriasis Foundation (NPF) survey report. In addition, very severe disease is more common among members of these groups.
New glenohumeral osteoarthritis guidelines recommend arthroplasty
January 27th 2010Total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA) is preferred over hemiarthroplasty in the treatment of patients who have glenohumeral osteoarthritis (GHOA) in the strongest of 16 recommendations in a new evidence-based clinical practice guideline developed by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS). The AAOS guideline is designed to help physicians improve treatment of patients with shoulder pain by applying the best current evidence in making clinical decisions about GHOA.
Public Citizen Files a Petition to Remove Fibromyalgia Drug from the Market
January 26th 2010Last week, the non-profit, consumer advocacy group known as Public Citizen filed a petition to the FDA on the removal of Savella, a selective serotonin and norepinephrine dual reuptake inhibitor used to treat fibromyalgia, from the market.
ACL injury risk greater on the other side
January 26th 2010The risk of sustaining a contralateral anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury is greater than the risk of sustaining a first-time ACL injury, according to investigators in the department of orthopedics at Lund University and Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden. The most important risk factor for sustaining a contralateral ACL injury is return to a high activity level after a unilateral ACL injury.
Doctors Without Borders Plane with Lifesaving Medical Supplies Diverted Again from Landing in Haiti
January 19th 2010A Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières cargo plane carrying 12 tons of medical equipment, including drugs, surgical supplies and two dialysis machines, was turned away three times from Port-au-Prince airport since Sunday night despite repeated assurances of its ability to land there.
Haiti: 'Patients who were not Critical Three Days Ago are now in Critical Phases'
January 18th 2010Isabelle Jeanson, a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières emergency communications officer, has been with the MSF teams in Port-au-Prince since January 15. Here she describes the situation as of January 17.