RheumNow Podcast – Sweet Lies or Hard Truths? (2.26.2021)
Dr. Jack Cush reviews and discusses the news and Journal reports from the past week on RheumNow.com.
Read ArticleDr. Jack Cush reviews and discusses the news and Journal reports from the past week on RheumNow.com.
Read ArticleKatz, Arant and Loeser have published a comprehensive open-read overview of osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip and knee in JAMA; underscoring the impact, advances, disappointments and guidelines put forth.
OA affects an estimated more than 240 million people worldwide, and more
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Knee osteoarthritis (OA) patients using nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) showed greater loss of medial minimum joint space width than did others taking other drugs, registry data indicated.
Compared with current non-users of NSAIDs, those who were treated with these
Read ArticleMedicare beneficiaries were increasingly likely to have long-term opioid therapy stopped in recent years and medication changes often were abrupt, not tapered, an observational study showed.
Long-term opioid discontinuations among Medicare Part D beneficiaries increased by 49% from
Read ArticleDr. Jack Cush reviews and discusses the news and journal reports from the past week on RheumNow.com.
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Dr. Jack Cush reviews this past week's journal articles and news features on RheumNow.com. Colchicine, vaccine rollout, risk of RA in endometriosis patients, tREACH trial, lupus nephritis news, rheumatology burnout and more.
Read ArticleDr. Jack Cush reviews the news and journal articles from the past week on RheumNow.com, with more than a dozen items to discuss on this week's podcast.
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What started out as online tweets and sharing newsfeed and case reports, has progressed to the formation of the COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance, whose mission is to create an international rheumatology registry of patients affected by the disease in order to better understand the disease
Read ArticleReady for telemedicine/telerheumatology?
Once you and your patient agree on a virtual visit, the following suggestions may help facilitate the interaction. If you have the ability and the capacity, record the visit.
We are in the early stages of trying to limit the morbid and mortal consequences of the corona virus pandemic of 2020. Not surprisingly, the recommendations designed to limit exposure and damage continually highlight the fact that the elderly and immunosuppressed may be amongst the most
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