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Dr. Jack Cush reviews and discusses the news and Journal reports from the past week on RheumNow.com.
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Katz, Arant and Loeser have published a comprehensive open-read overview of osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip and knee in JAMA; underscoring the impact, advances, disappointments and guidelines put forth.
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Non-adherence may be the single most untold risk to suboptimal outcomes in the care of musculoskeletal disease. It has been estimated that 30-80% of patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) are nonadherent to prescribed regimens. EULAR has commissioned a task force
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What started out as online tweets and sharing newsfeed and case reports, has progressed to the formation of the COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance, whose mission is to create an international rheumatology registry of patients affected by the disease in order to better understand the disease and guide clinicians in assessing and treating patients.
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JAMA Internal Medicine has published a review showing that most currently approved therapies for fibromyalgia (FM) do not have high-quality evidence to support their use; with some reducing pain or improving quality of life (QOL) in the short term, but overall effect size is not impressive.
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Abrupt Cessation of Long-Term Opioid Prescribing Common
Medicare beneficiaries were increasingly likely to have long-term opioid therapy stopped in recent years and medication changes often were abrupt, not tapered, an observational study showed.
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Abrupt Cessation of Long-Term Opioid Prescribing Common
Medicare beneficiaries were increasingly likely to have long-term opioid therapy stopped in recent years and medication changes often were abrupt, not tapered, an observational study showed.
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Consults in Cars--have telehealth consults gone too far?
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Download available--Maintaining a Healthy Immune System
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British registry 801 axial SpA pts; 646 did not hve fibromyalgia at baseline & 46 (7%) developed FM over time. Of 115 axSpa w/ baseline FM, 77 (2/3) recovered. FM more likely with high Dz activity ((OR 1.27) & widespread pain (OR 1.14) https://t.co/4jOdaXIJuB https://t.co/ruOYj5HmMX
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2020 Rheumatology Year in Review-- Read our top news items that rheumatologists should recollect and integrate into clinical standards for 2021 and beyond.
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Phase II/III, double-blind, RCT shown fasinumab (nerve growth factor inhibitor) at higher doses (9mg q4 or q8wks), but not lower doses, improved chronic low back pain w/ best responses at wk 16.. Rapid OA progression seen more w/ FAS (3.8%) vs PBO (0.7%) https://t.co/OfdEsAZuDe
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Fibromyalgia Therapies Show Limited Evidence of Pain and QOL Reduction
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The presence of fibromyalgia in psoriatic arthritis correlates with the clinical outcome scores. Ultrasound evaluation can be useful to evaluate disease activity in the presence of fibromyalgia @rheumnow #ACR20 Abstr#315 #ACRbest
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Early RA pts may develop chronic widespread pain. Not all have fibromyalgia. Multiple areas of pain & inflammation ^ chronic pain & other factors ie women high initial pain longer symptoms @CRASCRRheum @RheumNow #ACR20 abstr#187 1/3 at onset have regional pain 1/4 at 1yr https://t.co/7qOxH4h7Dd https://t.co/IFO1uwyR0o
