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Women with Rheumatic Disease (11.4.2022)
Dr. Jack Cush reviews the news and journal articles from this past week on RheumNow.com. New regulatory decisions about JAK inhibitors and why do women with rheumatic diseases have unfair outcomes?
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CRTAC1- a Novel Biomarker for Osteoarthritis
Scientists at deCODE genetics a subsidiary of Amgen report in Arthritis & Rheumatology that a novel plasma protein (cartilage acidic protein-1; CRTAC1) is a potential biomarker of osteoarthritis (OA) through its association with OA risk and progression to joint replacement.
Read ArticleOrthopedic surgery patients do fine without opioid painkillers
Hamilton, ON (Oct. 4, 2022) – Patients can recover from orthopedic surgery just as well without using opioid-based painkillers, says a McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
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Great and Not So Great (9.30.2022)
This week it's the great and not-so-great on gout, chondrocalcinosis, osteoporosis and misdiagnosis. We are good at many of those things - what's not so great? Let's review the news and journal reports from the past week on RheumNow.
Read ArticleOpioid Crisis Costs USA $1.5 Trillion
Reuters has reported the results of a Congressional report showing the economic toll of the opioid addiction and overdose crisis on the United States reached nearly $1.5 trillion in 2020 alone and is likely to grow.
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