Low Back Pain
Best Practices for Treating Non-Specific Low Back Pain Best Practices for Treating Non-Specific Low Back Pain www.the-rheumatologist.org Physical therapy trumps drugs and surgery in treating Low Back Pain without a…
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My highly opinionated news-blog draws inspiration from both the science and the art of Rheumatology.
Osteoporosis
Fractures Double Risk for Death in Older Adults Older adults might be more inclined to use walkers and canes if they understood the relation between falls and premature death, according…
Gout
Some Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Have Elevated Monosodium Urate Deposits A considerable number of patients who suffer from rheumatoid arthritis display periarticular… www.hcplive.com Gouty deposition around joints correlates with seronegative RA:…
Stem Cell Therapy
Fetal Cells May Protect Mom From Disease Long After The Baby's Born In 1893, a German scientist made a striking discovery: Cells from a fetus hide out in a mother's…
Spondyloarthritis
RheumaKnowledgy rheumaknowledgy.com This FREE mobile guide is mighty good! Tapering treatment in AS Objective To compare the effectiveness, safety and costs of standard versus individually tailored reduced doses of…
Spondyloarthritis
ACR 2015 Axial Spondyloarthritis (Ankylosing Spondylitis) treatment recommendations In September of this year the American College of Rheumatology released the first ever recommendations for physicians in the US for the…
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Remembering Professor FENG PAO HSII Cyclophosphamide in Treatment of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: 7 Years' Experience This paper describes our experience with cyclophosphamide in the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus. Since…
Ultrasound
Power Doppler Ultrasound Detects Early Synovitis Change in APPRAISE Study While new recommendations suggest early aggressive management of rheumatoid arthritis, our ability to assess treatment response is limited to clinical and… rheumnow.com…
Hepatitis C
Hepatitis C virus infection causes rheumatoid arthritis, before HCV detection Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has been found to cause rheumatoid arthritis even before HCV is… www.belmarrahealth.com No, I'm not…
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Predicting and preventing the development of rheumatoid arthritis A desire to cure and even prevent RA has led to an increased interest in its earliest phases—those clinically apparent phases of…