New guidelines have been developed by the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) on how to assess and manage of immune checkpoint inhibitor side effects that are often autoimmune in nature.
A study of USA administrative claims data between 2000 to 2014 assessed the risk of cancer with exposure to tumour necrosis factor inhibitor (TNFi) in pediatric patients and found that TNFi therapy did not significantly increase the risk compared those not receiving TNFi.
UK researchers have treated 248 patients with moderate to severe hand pain and radiographic osteoarthritis (OA) and demonstrated no benefit after 12 months of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), according to a recent article in Annals of Internal Medicine.
An analysis of the UK Biobank study found no link between calcium/vitamin D supplementation and incident cardiovascular events/deaths in a large prospective study of 475,255 men and women aged 40 to 69 years.Results published in Journal of Bone and Mineral Research used registry data to identify coded incident hospital admissions for ischemic heart disease (IHD), myocardial infarction (MI), and subsequent death.
The 2018 American Academy of Dermatology Annual Meeting features recent findings of a phase III trial of apremilast in active Behçet’s Disease, showing significant reductions in oral ulcers at week 12 for those treated with apremilast 30 mg twice daily.
Dr. Jack Cush reviews highlights, news and recent research published this week on RheumNow.com. This week's report includes news on social media, new rituximab indications, steroid complications, DECT in Gout, T2T in gout, Dementia and rheumatology numbers.
An analysis of 43,706 adults from the 1999-2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) demonstrated temporal trends in the prevalence of arthritis, including a rise in osteoarthritis (OA) from 6.6% to 14.3%, while the prevalence of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) decreased from 5.9% to 3.8% in the USA, (Citation source https://buff.ly/2o6fhkW)
The results from a phase 2 clinical trial presented at the American Society of Hematology meeting demonstrated that the drug abatacept was highly effective in managing severe acute graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) in patients receiving hematopoietic stem cell transplants.
Researchers from Geisinger Medical center tested a pilot primary care gout management improvement intervention, and demonstrated significantly improved primary care gout management metrics when a treat to target approach was implemented.
UK researchers have analyzed rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients from the UK Clinical Practice Research Database and shown that chronic conventional DMARD (cDMARD) use was associated with 40% lower risk of dementia (nearly 50% with methotrexate use).
Listen in on the proceedings from the 2018 RWCS meeting in Maui, with excerpts from leading teachers in rheumatology. This podcast features presentations from Drs. Leslie Biello, Alvin Wells, Anne Stevens, Rachel Tate, Anna Postolova, Artie Kavanaugh, Bevra Hahn, Eric Ruderman, Mark Genovese, Uma Mahadevan, Bernie Rubin, Umber Ahmad. Listen here or on Stitcher, iTune, iPhone, Soundcloud or Google play.
Listen in on the proceedings from the 2018 RWCS meeting in Maui with excerpts from leading teachers in rheumatology. This podcast features topics in dermatology, the fellowship program lead by Dr. Bernie Rubin and videos by the fellows. Featured are Drs. Rachel Tate, Sheetal Patel, Bernie Rubin, Natasha Zohuri, Laura Howe, Kyle Maier, Jeff Chwa, George Martin, and Elaine Alexander.
Dr. Jack Cush reviews highlights, news and recent research published this week on RheumNow.com. This week's report includes news and education from the RWCS meeting in Maui. Also featured are uricase treatments for gout, exercise in RA, CVD in lupus, NFC predicting mortality in systemic sclerosis, Uveitis predicting AS and future manpower shortages in rheumatology.
Listen in on the proceedings from the 2018 RWCS meeting in Maui with excerpts from leading teachers in rheumatology. This podcast features Drs. Martin Bergman, Jack Cush, Rachel Tate, Phil Aleksiejuk, Shubha Kollampare, Orrin Troum, and Alvin Wells. Listen here or on Stitcher, iTune, iPhone, Soundcloud or Google play.
Arthritis Research and Therapy reports on the epidemiologic association between recurrent anterior uveitis and ankylosing spondylitis (AS) noting that as the number of uveitis episodes increases, so does the incidence of AS.
