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The RheumNow Week in Review – 17 February 2017
Dr. Jack Cush reviews this week's news and information from the 2017 RWCS meeting in Maui.
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Top Ten Things Rheumatologists Should Know When Ordering Imaging
As a musculoskeletal radiologist, I work every day with rheumatologists. I have been in practice for approximately 17 years and had a musculoskeletal radiology fellowship prior to establishing my practice.
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ACP Recommends a Drug-Free Approach to Back Pain
The American College of Physicians (ACP) recommends that physicians avoid prescribing drugs, especially narcotics, for patients with acute or subacute low back pain.
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The RheumNow Week in Review – 10 February 2017
Dr. Jack Cush discusses the news and reports from this week on RheumNow:
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Chronic Pain Associated with Poverty and Less Education
Poorer and less-educated older Americans are more likely to suffer from chronic pain than those with greater wealth and more education, but the disparity between the two groups is much greater than previously thought, according to new research.
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Novel Peripheral Helper T Cells in RA
US and UK researchers have identified a unique subset of helper T-cells called ‘peripheral helper’ T-cells in the synoviums that may be linked to the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis.
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NSAIDs Ineffective in Back Pain
The George Institute for Global Health has performed a systematic review of drugs used to treat back pain. Their findings, published in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, shows that only one in six improve their pain with NSAID therapy.
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The RheumNow Week in Review – 3 February 2017
Dr. Jack Cush reviews this week's highlights from RheumNow.
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Curbside Consults - January 2017
Curbside Consults are cases submitted by our rheumatology colleagues as challenging therapeutic or safety issues. Answers are based on experience, with added evidence from the medical literature and published guidelines.
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The RheumNow Week in Review – 27 January 2017
Dr. Cush reviews highlights from the past week on RheumNow.com.
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The Challenge of Screening for Obstructive Sleep Apnea
A JAMA article presents the US Public Health Task Force review of OSA testing.
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DSB - Safety Update and Drug Shortages January 2017
RheumNow will periodically report safety issues as Drug Safety Bulletins. These will update you with safety issues, label changes and reports of new, ongoing and resolved drug shortages that affect rheumatology. If you have suggestions or information about specific drug shortages or drug safety issues, please email us at info@rheumnow.com.
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The RheumNow Week in Review – 20 January 2017
Dr. Jack Cush reviews highlights from the past week on RheumNow.
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EULAR Revised Recommendations for Fibromyalgia
The European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) recommendations for fibromyalgia (FM) management were published in 2007 and largely had recommendations based on expert opinion’. These guidelines were updated in May of 2015 after a systematic reviews and meta-analyses of the data.
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Patient and Provider Education Fails to Improve Osteoarthritis Outcomes
A randomized trial of 537 knee osteoarthritis (OA) patients in the Duke Healthcare system has shown that patient- and provider interventions were no better than the usual standard of care.
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Rituximab Effects on ANCA, IgG and Infectious Risk in ANCA-Associated Vasculitis
Rituximab has significantly changed the management of patiehts with ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV). Yet the longitudinal assessment of such patients needs to be guideded by clinical and laboratory parameters.
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The RheumNow Week in Review – 13 January 2017
Dr. Jack Cush reviews highlights from this past week on RheumNow.com:
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Less Education Yields Higher Cardiovascular Risk
Similar to the findings in rheumatoid arthritis, lower levels of education can have predictable negative consequences. And the reasons for more heart attacks with lower educational levels is not entirely clear.
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Do Exercise ‘Weekend Warriors’ Lower Their Risk of Death?
Is being a “weekend warrior” and cramming the recommended amount of weekly physical activity into one or two sessions associated with lower risks for death?
A new article published online by JAMA Internal Medicine suggests that compared with inactive adults, weekend warriors who performed the recommended amount of 150 minutes of moderate or 75 minutes of vigorous activity in one or two sessions per week had lower risks for death from all causes, cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer.
Weight Loss Improves Psoriasis
Jennsen et al previously reported their findings regarding weight reductions ability to improve cutaneous psoriasis at the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV) meeting in 2015, Now their results are published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
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