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RheumNow Podcast – As Good As I Ever Was (7.2.2021)

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

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ACR Stands Against Insurer Mandated Infusion Locations

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The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) has released an updated position statement on patient safety and site of service for biologics outlining several reasons why the ACR strongly believes infusions should be administered in a monitored health care setting with onsite supervision by a provid

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RheumNow Podcast – Modern Treatment of RA Pregnancy (6.25.2021)

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Dr. Jack Cush reviews this week’s news and journal reports featured on RheumNow.com.

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RheumNow Podcast - Best of EULAR 2021

Jack Cush, MD

Dr. Jack Cush reviews and highlights his favorite abstracts and presentations from last week's virtual EULAR 2021 meeting.

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Featured Abstracts from Industry at EULAR 2021

Jack Cush, MD

Many great presentations this week at EULAR 2021 will feature industry sponsored clinical trials and reports.  Often these become the pivotal studies for regulatory approval and the annual congresses are their first look.

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Best Interventions for Gout Flares

Jack Cush, MD

A recent metanalysis assessed the comparative efficacy of current first-line pharmacologic antiinflammatory interventions for gout flares and surmised that canakinumab and intravenous or intramuscular corticosteroids are superior to  nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs [NSAIDs].

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COLCORONA: Protective Effect of Colchicine in COVID-19

Jack Cush, MD

Lancet Respiratory Medicine has reported the results of the COLCORONA trial, showing that in patients with PCR-confirmed COVID-19 infection, colchicine led to a significantly lower rate of death or hospital admission from COVID.

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RheumNow Podcast – Myth Busters (5.21.2021)

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

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RheumNow Podcast – BandAids for Rheumatologists (5.14.2021)

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Dr. Jack Cush reviews the news and journal articles from the past week on RheumNow.com - a website for rheumatologists, by rheumatologists.



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RheumNow Live 2021 Now Available for All

Jack Cush, MD

RheumNow Live (RNL) for 2021 was held March 20 - 21 in Fort Worth, TX, and now all can partake in the meeting - by video, podcast or by signing up for Tuesday Nite Rheumatology (TNR).

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Global metanalysis of 67 studies of T2T in gout shows only 34% on ULT achieve a serum urate target. Thus only a minority of gout receive T2T care worldwide. Thos on ULT, have low rates of continuous Rx, SUA testing, & achieving SUA target https://t.co/zpBRhRaek5

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Metanalysis shows no clear association between allopurinol use and a lowered all-cause mortality in gout patients, but the number of studies was small https://t.co/MM0nIjZPbV

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Popular article: Best Interventions for Gout Flares https://t.co/duhEHJG9eY https://t.co/tJRwuMPhUR

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Ten Things to Tell Patients About Diet and Rheumatic Disease: Dr. Eric Dein ( @ejdein1 ) https://t.co/q2Mc1gLZig https://t.co/iV5JO8m5Sv

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Dr Dehlin presents Swedish data showing ⬆️ risk of all cause mortality (HR: 1.08 (95% CL: 1.05-1.11) and most comorbidities but a ⬇️ risk dementia in gout 0.68 (0.60-0.77) @RheumNow #EULAR2021 Abstr#OP0208 https://t.co/0ojpSbfIHM
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My toe hurts & it’s a killer! Gout is related to ⬆️comorbidities - clusters incl no comorbidities to worse outcomes if CRF in gout. HTN⬆️ Gout has SNIPs assoc w HTN & May be the cause. Incident Gout assoc with Acute coronary syndrome OP0193 OP0192 #EULAR2021 @RheumNow @eular_org https://t.co/CS6o0T1FL2
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Novartis announced that Cosentyx (secukinumab) has received FDA approval for treatment of children and adolescents with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis #EULAR2021 https://t.co/JlkmjLwqQ8

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Study of National inpatient sample database (2015 to 2017) showed the frequency of atrial fibrillation in rheumatic disease (RD) pts finding that AF frequency highest in gout followed by vasculitis, and PMR. RD Mortality was 2 fold higher with AF. https://t.co/enno6hrKOI

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News: Factors Associated with COVID-19 Deaths in Rheumatic Patients https://t.co/FzsINtpZEz https://t.co/QzuLZRKaZy

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"Arthritis Mutilans" - worse outcome to chronic inflammatory arthritis is due to 5 disorders: 1) RA 2) Psoriatic arthritis 3) Tophaceous gout 4) polyarticular JIA 5) Multicentric reticulohistiocytosis (Ive never seen this!!) https://t.co/XYmBEW1F0R https://t.co/tGWNG9Aklw

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