Articles By Jack Cush, MD
New Lyme Disease Guidelines
2020 evidence-based clinical practice guideline for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of Lyme disease was cooperatively developed the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), and the American College of Rheumatology (ACR).
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Systemic Steroids Seldom Flare Psoriasis
A tenet of drug management suggests that steroid use in psoriasis may be associated with rebound flares; well this has been challenged by a new observational trial showing that the risk of flares (and severe flares) of psoriasis flares were seldom triggered by systemic steroids - certainly much l
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Upadacitinib Effective in Biologic Refractory Psoriatic Arthritis
The SELECT-PsA 2 trial was presented at the ACR meeting and recently published in Annals of Rheumatic Disease, shows that psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients who have failed at least one biologic DMARD, did respond well to upadacitinib.
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Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule Released
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid's CY 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rule provides much-needed increases in Medicare reimbursement for the evaluation and management (E/M) services provided by rheumatologists and other cognitive care specialties to Medicare beneficiaries.
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RheumNow Podcast – Back Talk Listener Questions (12.04.20)
Dr Jack Cush takes questions from RheumNow listeners
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PIANO Study - Safety of Biologics in Pregnancy
The results of the long awaited PIANO study have been reported in the journal Gastroenterology, showing that pregnant women with IBD may safely receive biologic or thiopurine therapy throughout the pregnancy without substantial added risk to the unborn or mother.
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ACR20 - Autoinflammatory & Still's Disease Panel
This podcast features a discussion of autoinflammatory and Still's disease abstracts from virtual ACR 2020. Dr. Jack Cush is joined by a panel of experts including Drs. Olga Petryna, Bella Metha and Michael Ombrello.
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Undifferentiated Autoinflammatory Syndrome Called VEXAS
Saturday's session on autoinflammatory syndromes featured Dr. Dan Kastner addressing - The Adult with Undifferentiated Autoinflammatory Disease.
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RheumNow Podcast – ACR 2020 Epilogue (11.20.20)
Dr. Jack Cush reviews a few more ACR 2020 abstracts and presents a new plan to learn or take in ACR20 content.
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Rheumnow Podcast - ACR 2020 Retrospective (11.13.20)
Dr. Jack Cush reviews this past week at Virtual ACR 2020 - highlights from the meeting and his view of best/newest studies. What will people remember or talk about from ACR 2020?
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