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.
MRI-detected subchondral bone marrow signal alterations of the knee joint: terminology, imaging appearance, relevance and radiological differential diagnosis www.sciencedirect.com MRI is arguably the most important investigative tool in knee…
2016 Patellofemoral pain consensus statement from the 4th International Patellofemoral Pain Research Retreat, Manchester. Part 1: Terminology, definitions, clinical examination, natural history, patellofemoral osteoarthritis and patient-reported outcome measures.com m.bjsm.bmj.com 2016…
Will 'Unloading' Shoes Help Your Arthritic Knees? Study puts specially designed footwear to the test consumer.healthday.com "Unloading" shoes like the overpriced "Gel Melbourne OA" shoes don't work any better than…
Meniscal Tears May Not Need Surgery A study published in the British Medical Journal examines whether knee surgery or conservative medical management benefits those with degenerative meniscal… rheumnow.com For degenerative…
Closest Thing to a Wonder Drug? Try Exercise If the effects of exercise could be put in a pill and prescribed, it would be rightly hailed as an almost miraculous…
Sarcoidosis: Practice Essentials, Background, Pathophysiology Sarcoidosis is a multisystem inflammatory disease of unknown etiology that predominantly affects the lungs and intrathoracic lymph nodes. Sarcoidosis is… emedicine.medscape.com Sarcoidosis www.docguide.com Sarcoidosis Update…
Fibromyalgia: All you want to, need to, ought to know Fibromyalgia is currently understood to be a disorder of central pain processing or a syndrome of central sensitivity. Clauw describes…
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a disorder characterized by a state of chronic fatigue that persists for more than 6 months, has no clear cause, and is…
A New Way to Predict Infection’s Toll Scientists have developed new ways to forecast who will bounce back from disease by studying not just the way the immune system fights…
How Rheumatoid Arthritis Can Result from Provocation of the Immune System by Microorganisms and Viruses The pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), similar to development of a majority of inflammatory and…
