NIH funded researchers from Duke University have developed a set of serum proteomic biomarkers that successfully predict clinically relevant knee osteoarthritis (KOA) progression (both structural change and joint pain) over a 2 year period.

The 2023 Medscape Survey on Physician burnout ranks rheumatology at #10; which is down from #2 when the survey was last done in 2021.

The survey included over 9100 physcians from 29 specialties. Surprisingly, 53% of MDs claimed to be burnt-out; this was only 42% in 2018. Rheumatologists claimed this 50% of the time. The top 3 specialties in this survey were Emergency medicine (65% of physicians reported burnout), Internal medicine (60%) and Pediatrics (59%) [ previously this was Critical care (51%), Rheumatology (50%) and infectious disease (49%)].