Data from the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology Coronavirus Vaccine registry shows that patients with with inflammatory or noninflammatory rheumatic and musculoskeletal disease have similar adverse event rates as the general public.
The annual Medscape Physician Burnout & Depression survey has been published for 2022 and Rheumatology burnout stats have improved, now ranking 10th (middle of the pack).
MMWR has published the results of the 2017 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System showing that increases in the number of social risk factors independently increases the odds of arthritis and its burden in the USA.
A pragmatic, open-label trial of osteoarthritis (OA) patients demonstrated that adding duloxetine treatment seems to be beneficial for end-stage knee OA patients with neuropathic-like symptoms (at risk of central sensitization).
Drs. Jack Cush and Artie Kavanaugh review the highlights of the RWCS (Rheumatology Winter Clinical Symposium) from Maui.
Why did I end up a rheumatologist? Circumstance, personality types, horoscopes or what? A current study in BMJ sheds light on why.
Rheumatologists looking for clues to whether their patients with certain inflammatory myopathies will improve on immunosuppressive drugs may find them in a new study appearing in Arthritis Care & Research.
Using a large cohort of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients, Tumor-Necrosis Factor inhibitors (TNFi) were compared to non-TNFi biologic therapies and showed that poorer responses were seen in obese and underweight patients, with no clear superiority of non-TNFi therapy over TNFi therapy in an
Patients enrolled in one of the pivotal trials of guselkumab (Tremfya) as therapy for psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and followed for 100 weeks continued to show significantly reduced symptoms relative to pretreatment baseline, researchers said.
The European League against Rheumatism (EULAR) has developed recommendations for cardiovascular risk (CVR) management in rheumatic disease patients based on literature review and expert consensus.
The consequences of medication non-adherence (NA) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) care are numerous and damaging. A 6-month prospective cohort study of RA patients shows NA to vary according to drug type and be related to psychological, communicational, logistic, sociodemographic or clini
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