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.

Subfertility

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…

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Behçet's & Crohn's

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…

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JAK Inhibitors

Originally thought to be a specific JAK1/3 inhibitor, it’s pleiotropic targeting in clinical trials makes it a pan-JAK inhibitor.Although Tofacitinib does not directly target TNF, IL17 & IL1 (3 pivotal…

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Pregnancy

2016 BSR and BHPR guideline on prescribing drugs in pregnancy and breastfeeding—Part I: standard and biologic disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs and corticosteroids The prescribing of many drugs in pregnancy is…

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T Cell Activation

Scientists Speculate On What Caused The Bial Drug Testing Tragedy In France A round-up of the weekend's scientific speculation on whether off-target effects, drug… forbes.com|By David Kroll Amongst the postulates,…

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Opioids

CDC Reports Increasing Narcotic Deaths A recent Morbidity Mortality Weekly Report from the CDC reviewed the epidemic of drug overdose (poisoning) deaths in the USA. Since 2000, the rate of…

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Knee Pain

What is it? Osteoarthritis (OA), or degenerative joint disease, is the most common form of arthritis. It most often affects middle-aged and older people, involving the neck, lower back, knees,…

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