Articles By Jack Cush, MD
The Week in Review - 13 February 2016
Video highlights from last week's reports, news and tweets on RheumNow.com
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CBC Hidden Pearls
CBC…it’s easy as 123! The complete blood count (aka, CBC) is the most routine, but indispensable, of all medical assessments.
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Hidradenitis Suppurativa Increases Cardiovascular Event Risk
Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic inflammatory disease affecting exocrine glands with painful abscesses in intertriginous areas.
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Ultrasound Training Escalates in the United States
A recent report cites the frequency of musculoskeletal (MSK) ultrasound (US) education in US residency and fellowship training programs.
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RWCS 2016 – Periodic Fever and Macrophage Activation Syndrome + Pregnancy in IBD
Pregnancy and Immune Modulating Therapies
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Lupus Flares After Renal Transplant
Whether lupus activity is ameliorated by end-stage renal disease (ESRD) or transplantation has been debated.
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Patient's Out-of-Pocket Costs for New Drugs Sky-Rocketing
The good news: in 2015 the FDA approved a record number of new drugs (n=45). The bad news: most new drugs entering the market today have an exorbitantly high price tag.
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RWCS 2016 - Updates in AS, PsA and Lupus
Update on Ankylosing Spondylitis and Spondyloarthritis
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Smoking and Age Linked to Development of Inflammatory Arthritis
A prospective cohort of RA first-degree relatives were prospectively studied for genetic and environmental factors (smoking, body mass index, education, and parity) and RA-related autoantibodies that may influence future development of inflammatory joint symptoms over a 2 year 
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Prescribers More Likely to Escalate to Biologics than Triple DMARD Therapy
The paradigm for DMARD use in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) begins with DMARD monotherapy and then escalates to combination therapy with either DMARDs or a combination of conventional DMARD plus a biologic DMARD (bDMARD).
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