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New guidelines on the "Pharmacologic Management of Osteoporosis in Postmenopausal Women," were presented March 25 at ENDO 2019 - The Endocrine Society Annual Meeting and simultaneously published online in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
An observational study published in Annals of Internal Medicine finds that emergency department (ED) visits attributable to inhaled cannabis are more frequent than those attributable to edible cannabis, although the latter is associated with more acute psychiatric visits and more ED visits than e
What clinical features best identify early systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients from mimics? A multicenter, multinational study aimed to evaluate manifestations at disease onset and to compare early SLE manifestations to those of diseases mimicking SLE.
A recent study in JAMA Network Open shows that artificial intelligence models can use electronic health record data to prognosticate future patient outcomes in rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
A twin registry database study was presented at the Endocrine Society's annual meeting (ENDO 2019) in New Orleans, showed that that having autoimmune disease significantly increases the risk of other autoimmune disorders and that autoimmune clustering was highest in Addison's disease and vit
Rates of resistant hypertension were doubled among patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), significantly increasing their mortality risks, a retrospective single-center study found.
The mortality rate from end- stage renal disease (ESRD) in lupus nephritis (LN) patients has significantly decreased in the last decade.
Published guidelines warn that treating osteoarthritis (OA) with opioids and benzodiazepines can boost patients' risk of falling.
A Lancet study has shown that adding cyclosporin to intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) Kawasaki disease patients, who were predicted to be resistant to IVIG, was both safe and effective in averting severe coronary artery outcomes.
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals discontinued the marketing and sales of both lesinurad (Zurampic) the combination drug of lesinurad and allopurinol (Duzallo) in the United States effective February 1, 2019.
In patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), there was no increased risk for malignancy development seen with newly initiated tocilizumab (Actemra) treatment, an analysis of three U.S. insurance claim databases found.
Courtesy of the Canadian Rheumatology Association (CRA) website, here are consensus guidelines on medical cannabis use.
Rheumatology patients experience prevalent pain that is only modestly controlled with current treatment strategies.
The Myopathy Committee of the Brazilian Society of Rheumatology (BSR) has put forward recommendations for the management of patients with systemic autoimmune myopathies (SAM).
A claims data analysis shows that only one-third of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) treated with tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi) therapy remain on their initial drug in the 2 years post initiation.
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