Rheumatoid Arthritis

Will a vegetarian diet and exercise actually help RA disease activity?

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The exact role of diet, physical activity, and stress management in the management of RA has long been debated. While reasonable evidence has supported the importance of physical activity in patients with RA, its capacity to reduce disease activity via conventional measures such as DAS28 was

Steroids in RA: Friend or foe (or both)?

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While have come so far from the days of our patients living on massive doses of steroids, we still have many patients who use steroids for our diseases, with increasing data for toxicity, even in low dose. As someone much smarter than me described them, steroids are our best frenemy.

RA: MACE Events with Opioids vs. NSAIDs

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Addressing chronic pain often leads general practitioners and specialists to prescribe opioids. However, opioids (weak and strong) have not demonstrated efficacy in long-term pain management; their chronic use could even worsen pain in users. Opioids prescription is often perceived as being

Why treatment of pre-RA isn't ready for prime time

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The ACR Great Debate was on "To treat or not to treat in pre-RA?". What is the clinician to do?

ACR 2022 Appraisal, Praise & Critique (11.18.2022)

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It was great to be back at an ACR annual meeting, this one in Philadelphia - Philly was great. A walking town, rich in culture, history and good places to meet and mingle. 

I loved the city, but not the convention center (not easy to navigate). 

The meeting itself was very

RA-ILD takes centre stage

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Interstitial lung disease is common in RA, occurring in approximately 8% of RA patients. It is associated with a poor prognosis, and a median survival of 3 years. This important condition has often been neglected within the spectrum of RA research. That is changing, with excellent research

ACR Best Abstracts - Day 3

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The last day was jammed with important reports and research including the late breaking abstracts. 

The spicy topic of turmeric in rheumatoid arthritis

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Curcumin, the active constituent of turmeric extract, has increasingly been promoted as a potential rheumatoid arthritis therapy, but data presented at ACR22 suggests that even in ideal situations, it is unable to do any better than placebo in replacing conventional RA therapies.