Physician Use of Augmented Intelligence has Doubled

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A 2026 Physician Survey to assess artificial intelligence and its use in Medical Practice has been published and follows earlier surveys around adoption and use. This is the third in a series of longitudinal surveys (prior waves 2023, 2024), enabling meaningful trend analysis. AI adoption has more than doubled in three years and physician sentiment shifting decisively toward cautious optimism.

Litifilimab in Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus

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Biogen has announced positive results of their Phase 2 study, evaluating litifilimab in patients with active cutaneous lupus erythematosus (CLE), presented at the recent American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) Annual Meeting.

Modest Benefits with AI Scribes on EHR Documentation

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Documenting a patient visit in the electronic health record (EHR) is essential to healthcare delivery, but also a major contributor to clinician burnout.

Screening High Risk Myositis Patients for Cancer

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An Italian retrospective study of 411 idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) patients applied IMACS criteria to assess the risk of cancer and found significantly more cancers in those at high risk.

Top Four and More (4.10.2026)

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Dr. Jack Cush reviews the news and journal reports from RheumNow.com this week - including his top four favorite subjects.

Opioids Down, Gabapentins Up

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The number of U.S. patients prescribed long-term opioid therapy declined from 2015 to 2023, but co-prescribing of opioids with gabapentinoids increased, prescription data showed.

Malignancies Not Increased with Biologic Therapies

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The risk of malignancy in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients receiving biologic agents was evaluated by metanalysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and found no significant increased risk of malignancy compared with other disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) or with placebo.

JAMA Guideline on the Management of Crohn Disease

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JAMA has published a current Clinical Guidelines Synopsis on the Management of Crohn Disease (CD) in Adults.

COMMON - Incidental Rotator Cuff Abnormalities on MRI

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In this cross-sectional study of 602 Finnish adults undergoing bilateral shoulder magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and clinical assessment, found abnormalities in nearly everyone over age 40yrs, regardless if asymptomatic or symptomatic.

Predictors of Calcinosis Cutis in Systemic Sclerosis

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Calcinosis cutis (CaC) is a common and disabling non-lethal manifestations in systemic sclerosis (SSc). This study used SSc patients from the EUSTAR database to clinically characterize patients and identify risk factors for CaC development.

VEXAS Syndrome - A Review

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Beck et al has published a review of the VEXAS syndrome in The Lancet, focusing on the pathogenesis, spectrum, and treatment strategies.

Updated CRA/SPARCC Recommendations for Axial Spondyloarthritis

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In 2024, the Canadian Rheumatology Association (CMA) and the Spondyloarthritis Research Consortium of Canada (SPARCC) published a comprehensive set of 56 treatment recommendations for the management of axial spondyloarthritis. This first update is focused on the reassessment of IL-17i recommendations.