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Does Your Hospital Staff Include a Donald Trump?
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When Donald Trump announced that he was running for president last summer, most people didn't know quite what to think. Was this serious or some sort of publicity stunt? Would he be in the race for more than just a few weeks of intense media spotlight?
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Outpatient Surgery Safe for Total Hip
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ORLANDO -- Total hip replacement can be performed safely and effectively on an outpatient basis for healthy patients, a researcher reported here.
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Muscle Weakness Predicts Disability in Scleroderma
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Muscle weakness was independently associated with disability in patients with scleroderma, and as muscle weakness worsened, disability also increased, according to findings from a retrospective, nested, case control study.
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Calling a Doctor by His or Her First Name
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Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene II: "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, retain that dear perfection which he owes without that title."
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RA Flares Common After Anti-TNF Withdrawal
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The risk of a flare increased by more than three-fold over 1 year when patients with longstanding rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in remission, or with stable low disease activity, stopped their anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF) treatment, Dutch researchers reported.
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Relapse Common in ANCA-Associated Vasculitis
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Overall survival and survival free of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) have both improved significantly over time in patients with anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV), but the risk of relapse has not.
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GCA: Uptick in Severe Infections in First Year
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Patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA) had a higher rate of severe infections compared with the general population, a French study found.
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Biosimilar of Remicade Works in Ankylosing Spondylitis
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CT-P13, a biosimilar of infliximab (Remicade), demonstrated comparable and durable efficacy in the treatment of ankylosing spondylitis (AS), a multinational study found.
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Steroid Over-Prescribing Persists in RA
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Almost half of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in the UK receive glucocorticoids from primary care physicians, and of those who are prescribed glucocorticoids, more than half receive more than 10 mg a day.
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Game-Changers 2015: Refining Treatment in Arthritis
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Widening experience with JAK inhibition for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and tapering medications among RA patients in remission, along with the success of secukinumab for psoriatic arthritis (PsA), were the most important advances in rheumatology in 2015, according to specialists responding toMedPa
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