Approximately 12 million US adults in the US have gout. Two recent literature reports highlight contributors to gout flares. In JAMA, a retrospective review of 3613 gout patients with 3104 gout flares over 8.3 years showed an expected high rate of gout flares with higher baseline serum urate levels. Such that, 95% of gout flares occurred in people with serum uric acid (SUA) greater than or equal to 6 mg/dL.

A study from a large metropolitan registry of psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients showed several racial and/or ethnic groups are underrepresented and demonstrate differences in disease activity.

RheumNow recently highlighted a publication that reported about a third of physicians in academia intend to leave. To our colleagues in non-academic situations, this may seem incredibly high. I think an important contributor to the intention to leave academics is that something that used to be a benefit has now become a challenge: namely, teaching.