The 9 Muses are daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, Greek goddesses personifying the inspiration for the sciences and the arts.
My highly opinionated news-blog draws inspiration from both the science and the art of Rheumatology.
2009 Anti-Phospholipid Syndrome treatment overview This article discusses how we approach medical decision making in the treatment of the various facets of the antiphospholipid syndrome (APS), including secondary prophylaxis in…
FDA Panel Considers Allergen Immunotherapy Development An FDA panel met to discuss issues around the clinical development of allergen immunotherapy products. www.medscape.com Taking a Bite Out of Food Allergies: From…
Anti-IgE treatment, airway inflammation and remodelling in severe allergic asthma Asthma is a disorder of the airways involving various inflammatory cells and mediators and characterised… err.ersjournals.com Th17 regulating lower airway…
Cochrane Review: NSAIDs Equally Effective for Axial Spondyloarthritis Until the advent of TNF inhibitor therapy, nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) were the only… rheumnow.com The race is not always to the…
Psoriatic Arthritis: 2015 GRAPPA Treatment Recommendations Focus is on achieving low disease activity for all disease domains - www.medpagetoday.com Which Is More Effective in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis: Biologic Combination…
Britain grants first licence for editing genes of embryos LONDON • Britain granted its first licence for the genetic modification of human embryos as part of research into infertility and…
2013 Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) overview An overview of Cochrane reviews (Farquhar 2013)onlinelibrary.wiley.comThe State of the ART:Pregnancy is an immunological marvel: the mother is able to fend off germs and…
Behçet’s syndrome: a critical digest of the 2014-2015 literature One year in review; Authors: Gulen Hatemi, Emire Seyahi, Izzet Fresko, Rosaria Talarico, Vedat Hamuryudan www.clinexprheumatol.orgBeing in an endemic area, I…
Sustained biologic-free and drug-free remission in rheumatoid arthritis, where are we now? Translating research into clinical practice. Arthritis Research & Therapy is a leading journal in the field of rheumatology…
Treating rheumatoid arthritis to target: 2014 update of the recommendations of an international task force Background Reaching the therapeutic target of remission or low-disease activity has improved outcomes in patients…
