Dr. Jack Cush reviews the news and info reports the day before ACR 2025

Ronald Klein was biking around his neighborhood in North Wales, Pennsylvania, in 2006 and tried to jump a curb. "But I was going too slow -- I didn't have enough momentum," he recalled. As the bike toppled, he thrust out his left arm to break the fall. It didn't seem like a serious accident, yet "I couldn't get up," he said.

Consensus guidance on the management of pregnancy in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) was simultaneously published in six international journals, including The American Journal of Gastroenterology.

Dr. Jack Cush reviews the news, FDA approvals, and journal articles. In this episode: HMGCR Abs, FDA approvals and Cush eats crow.

Whole-body MRI (wbMRI) reviews have increasingly appeared in the medical literature, owing to better scanners, faster imaging times and reduced costs. Used of such non-oncologic musculoskeletal imaging provides high-contrast resolution images of the entire body or selected regions screening, diagnosis, staging, and surveillance purposes.

NEJM has reviewed the common hematologic/immunologic finding of "monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance" (MGUS) - a common premalignant plasma-cell proliferative disorder found in approximately 5% of those over age of 50 years.