The HCPLive Rheumatology condition center page is a comprehensive resource for clinical news and insights on rheumatologic disease. This page consists of interviews, articles, podcasts, and videos on the research, treatment and development of therapies for arthritis, gout, nr-AxSpA, and more.
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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Clinical Consultations™: Optimal Approaches to Recognizing and Treating ANCA-Associated Vasculitis
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Haiti Earthquake: Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières Working to Provide Healthcare
January 15th 2010Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières have been working together to treat as many of the people who were injured after the 7.0 earthquake that hit Haiti on Tuesday afternoon.
Will Tablets, e-Readers, and Netbooks Bridge the Gap between Smartphones and Laptops?
The 2010 Consumer Electronics Show recently concluded in Las Vegas; but aside from everything transforming into 3D, there were some other advances and introductions in the world of tech gadgets that are worth mentioning.
Identifying and managing osteoporosis: An update
January 10th 2010Osteoporosis is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. The fracture risk assessment tool (FRAX) calculates the contribution of significant clinical risk factors and bone mineral density to estimate the 10-year risk of major osteoporotic fracture and hip fracture.
Nonpharmacological treatment for low back pain
January 10th 2010A serious underlying condition rarely is present in patients with low back pain (LBP), but the pain can be intense and severely limit home and work activities. For most patients with LBP, the cause is a nonspecific mechanical process; for those with acute symptoms, the course is self-limited. Initial treatments include activity modification, nonnarcotic analgesic agents, and patient education. For patients whose symptoms are not improving, referral for physical treatments is appropriate.
"What We Need Now Is True Medical Care Reform," says Doctor in New Book - Time to Care
January 8th 2010"The current health care reform proposal is just a beginning," says Norman Makous, MD. "This legislation addresses health coverage reform. The problem that has not been touched in the current legislation relates to how we provide medical services.
Obesity offensive tries behavioral slant
January 8th 2010Obesity poses a significant public health challenge that increases the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus, heart disease, hypertension, stroke, some cancers, osteoarthritis, and other conditions, according to the NIH. Therefore, the organization is leading a new obesity prevention initiative that will use findings from basic research on human behavior to develop more effective interventions to combat the problem.
New Thinking in Breakthrough Pain
January 7th 2010First identified in cancer patients in the 1970s, breakthrough pain is also a clinical challenge in other pain modalities, including neuropathy and back pain. With new information and more effective treatments now available, physicians are changing the way they approach this puzzle.
Ankylosing spondyltitis instruments lacking in patient's perspective
January 7th 2010The classic disease-specific instruments for evaluating ankylosing spondylitis (AS) are geared toward the needs of researchers and clinicians. Therefore, they often do not cover aspects of the disease that are important to patients and those factors are neglected.
Gait parameters impairedin women with fibromyalgia
January 6th 2010The gait parameters of women affected by fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) are severely impaired compared with those of healthy women, according to researchers in the department of physical education and sports at the University of Granada in Spain. Different factors (eg, lack of physical activity, bradykinesia, overweight, fatigue, and pain) together with a lower isometric force in the legs may be responsible for the alterations in gait and poorer quality of life in women with FMS.
Knowing ankle kinematics helpsassessment of osteoarthritis treatment
January 5th 2010In persons with tibiotalar osteoarthritis (OA), subtalar joint motion during the stance phase of gait in the sagittal, coronal, and transverse rotational planes tends to occur in a direction opposite to that in persons who have normal ankles, according to researchers in the department of orthopedic surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. This phenomenon represents a breakdown in the normal motion coupling seen in healthy ankle joints.
2009 Witnesses Many Firsts in Efforts to Overcome Lupus
December 29th 2009The year 2009 will be remembered as a year of many firsts for lupus, including the launch of a public awareness campaign, a report on the barriers to lupus drug development, and the first successful phase III clinical trial of a potential new treatment for lupus.
Alberta Breakthrough Pain Assessment Tool
December 28th 2009The ABPAT is a standardized assessment "designed to characterize various clinically relevant elements of breakthrough pain" and support "improved research on the tolerability, safety and efficacy of novel breakthrough analgesic interventions."
Cricoarytenoid Arthritis in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients
Arthritis of the cricoarytenoid joints is not as rare as is commonly believed. Many sources still consider cricoarytenoid arthritis to be an atypical symptom of rheumatoid arthritis in spite of evidence to the contrary.