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RheumNow Podcast – Back Talk Listener Questions (12.04.20)
Dr Jack Cush takes questions from RheumNow listeners
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Rheumatology Round-Up with Drs. Kavanaugh & Cush
The Annual Review of Best ACR 2020 abstracts featuring Drs. Cush and Kavanaugh filmed on the last day of Virtual ACR 2020 Nov. 9, 2020. Watch now!
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RheumNow Podcast – ACR 20 is Coming to Town (10.30.20)
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
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Immune Necrotizing Myopathy
A full read review of immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy is portrayed as a distinct subtype of inflammatory myopathies first described in 2004.
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RheumNow Podcast – Back Talk: Questions from Listeners (10.23.20)
Dr. Jack Cush reviews the news, journal reports, survey results and "Back Talk" questions from Rheums.
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Remdesivir FDA Approved for Hospitalized COVID-19
The FDA has approved Gilead Sciences Inc’s antiviral drug remdesivir for treating patients hospitalized with COVID-19, making it the first and only drug approved for the disease in the United States.
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RheumNow Podcast – Good Time Charlie…. (10.16.20)
Dr. Jack Cush sings the news and journal reports from the past week on RheumNow.com.
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Abatacept vs. Upadacitinib in Biologic Refractory Rheumatoid Arthritis
NEJM reports the results of the SELECT-Choice trial, a head to head study of upadacitinib (UPA) and abatacept (ABA) in biologic refractory rheumatoid arthritis (RA); 12 weeks results showed UPA was significantly more clinically effective than ABA using a DAS28-CRP remission, but ABA had fewer safety signals and serious adverse events.
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Thrombotic Risk in Rheumatoid Arthritis Linked to Disease Activity
A large RA cohort study from the Swedish Rheumatology Quality Register shows a higher risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and that risk is linked to RA disease activity.
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Biologics Beneficial in Eosinophilic Vasculitis
Two biologic therapies showed promise in the treatment of refractory or relapsing eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA) in a retrospective European study.
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RheumNow Podcast – Function Follows Form (10.2.20)
Dr. Jack Cush reviews the news and journal articles from the past week on RheumNow.com. Regulatory approvals, update on global rheumatology alliance, smoking and psoriasis, gabapentin let down and defining difficult RA.
RheumNow Podcast – Cardiovascular Risk in Psoriatic Disease (9.25.20)
Dr. Jack Cush reviews the news and Journal articles from the past week on RheumNow.com.
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Livedo, Purpura and Coagulopathy in Severe COVID-19
JAMA Dermatology expands the spectrum of complications seen with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection describing cutaneous purpura and livedo lesions in patients with severe COVID-19.
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CDC Reverses Guidance for Asymptomatic COVID Contacts
Asymptomatic people who have been exposed to COVID-19 should be tested, the CDC said on Friday, in a reversal of controversial guidance the agency introduced in late August.
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CXCR3 and Restricted T Cells in Psoriatic Arthritis Inflammation
Research from Oxford University suggests a potential pathogenic role for the chemokine CXCR3 and clonally restricted CD8+ T cells in the pathogenesis of psoriatic arthritis (PsA) based studies of PsA synovial fluid samples obtained by arthrocentesis from 11 patients with large-joint oligo Ps
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RheumNow Podcast – Lupus Delights (9.18.20)
Dr Jack Cush reviews the news and journal reports from the past week on RheumNow.com:
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