Building an ACR Annual Meeting for the Whole World

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For many rheumatologists around the world, coming to America was a pilgrimage of sorts. A long journey and an expensive exercise but a worthy one – a fundamentally human exchange of ideas, where the person next to you could be from Arkansas, Alberta, or Amsterdam, but equally from Argentina, Algeria, Azerbaijan, or even Australia. So how (dare I say, on earth) do we translate that to our electronic screens?

Excited About ACR Convergence 2020

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I always think of why I attend the ACR: to gain new information and knowledge and bring it back to my clinic for my patients. Here's what I'm looking forward to this year.

Six Things Rheumatologists Need to Know About COVID-19

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From flu shots and face masks to vaccines and searching for the immunological endotype, here are six things rheumatologists need to know about COVID-19.

Industry Abstract Previews - ACR2020

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Each pharmaceutical company has spent months and years preparing to present and highlight their featured clinical trials and abstracts at ACR 2020.  This is our selection of their best studies for you to review and evaluate as part of your to-do list.

A Convergence of Ideas: COVID19 and ACR

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Since the beginning of the pandemic, rheumatologists scrambled to figure out how the SARS-CoV-2 virus will affect their patients with immune mediated inflammatory diseases (IMID). Meeting the needs of patients, managing a practice, and trying to balance a home life have many doctors stressed.

Check Out the Virtual ACR Playbook

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If you need a plan for this weekend's ACR meeting, check out and download our latest, "Virtual ACR 2020 Playbook". The playbook covers: setting virtual learning goals, sessions you probably shouldn't miss, how to still have peer interactions, what to do if you only have time to "dabble' - and more.

ACR 2020 Your Way - Get Your Topic Emails

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ACR is but a few days away; the question is: how will you tackle this virtual meeting? RheumNow has created several options for learning the way you want to. First is to feed your need. Are you a lupologist? A gout maven? A Spondylitis sleuth? A drug safety wannabe?

SPARTAN ACR20 Recommendations on Spondyloarthritis

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SPARTAN has compiled a list of presentations and sessions worth seeing if you are interested in ankylosing spondylitis, spondyloarthritis and related disorders.

Are Rheums Attending ACR 2020?

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ACR 2020 (aka ACR Convergence) is just around the corner, with the opening ceremonies and lecture starting Thursday, November 5th; followed by the full meeting beginning the next morning, Friday November 6th. 

RheumNow Podcast – ACR 20 is Coming to Town (10.30.20)

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Dr Jack Cush overviews the RheumNow commitment, upcoming bonus coverage of ACR20 and the good news and journal reports from the past week on RheumNow.com

RheumNow Podcast – Back Talk: Questions from Listeners (10.23.20)

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Dr. Jack Cush reviews the news, journal reports, survey results and "Back Talk" questions from Rheums.

High Burnout Rates Among Rheumatologists

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Bergman and colleagues have studied a large cohort of US rheumatologists and found that nearly half meet at least one criterion defining "burnout" among physicians.

Clinical Trial Boom or Bust in Severe COVID-19

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A number of recently published clinical trials are further defining the efficacy and outcomes of tocilizumab or remdesivir in treating SARs-CoV-2 infection.

Remdesivir

RheumNow Podcast – Good Time Charlie…. (10.16.20)

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Dr. Jack Cush sings the news and journal reports from the past week on RheumNow.com.

COVID Transmission from Young to Old

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The CDC has analyzed temporal trends in percent positivity by age group in COVID-19 hotspot counties before and after their identification as hotspots.