Rheumatology News

• How a Separation Agreement Could Save Your Career Even if you're not planning to leave your job, it's wise to lock in a separation agreement; it can affect your future career.
  Medscape Medical News, May 20, 2022
• Patients' Bad Behavior Provokes Burnout in Physicians: Study Mistreatment and discrimination by patients increase the risk of physician burnout; for 1 in 5 physicians, patients refused care because of the physician's appearance.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2022
• Does He Have Back Pain or Rheumatism? The search for evidence of inflammatory conditions is difficult, even for experts. One expert explains how this search can be successful.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2022
• CARRA 2022 Pfizer COVID Vax Performs Well in Youth With Rheumatic Diseases Nearly all participants in the study showed complete seroconversion, in contrast to similar studies in adults.
  Medscape Medical News, May 17, 2022
• BSR 2022 Risk Factors for COVID Death Studied in U.K. Arthritis Patients Shielding status was the highest ranked of all the risk factors identified for early mortality from COVID-19.
  Medscape Medical News, May 17, 2022
• AACE 2022 Abaloparatide Works in 'Ignored Population': Men With Osteoporosis Study finds increased bone mineral density from baseline to 1 year in men with osteoporosis, an 'ignored population.'
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2022
• Writing Out Common Medical Terms Boosts Patient Knowledge: Study Research published in JAMA Network Open shows that patients are more likely to understand their health conditions when healthcare providers avoid abbreviations and acronyms in written communications.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2022
• Lenabasum Improved Skin Symptoms, in Small Dermatomyositis Trial In the phase 2 trial, skin biopsies before and after treatment showed significant reductions in inflammatory cytokines relevant to dermatomyositis pathogenesis.
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• Using Anti-Inflammatory Drugs May Prolong Back Pain Steroids and anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen offer relief from acute pain but may actually increase a person's chances of developing chronic pain.
  WebMD Health News, May 13, 2022
• BSR 2022 Myositis Guidelines Aim to Standardize Adult and Pediatric Care These are the first guidelines on how to manage adult and pediatric patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies.
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• Are Physician White Coats Becoming Obsolete? The white coat has been the traditional physician garb. But since the pandemic, more have been wearing scrubs or more casual clothing. What's best for physicians to wear?
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• Mixing BP Meds With NSAID May Be 'Triple Whammy' for Kidneys Combining a diuretic and renin-angiotensin system inhibitor with an NSAID like ibu-profen might raise the risk for kidney injury, a new analysis confirms, pointing to factors that might predict risk.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2022
• CARRA 2022 Prior Authorizations Delay TNF Inhibitors for Children With JIA Many patients newly diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) at one academic center over a year had delays in care due to unnecessary prior authorization denials.
  Medscape Medical News, May 11, 2022
• Lyme Disease May Cost US Nearly $970 Million per Year Patients with localized disease had the lowest attributed costs, highlighting the importance of early diagnosis and intervention.
  Medscape Medical News, May 11, 2022
• What Are Common Misconceptions About Nurses? Nurses nationwide recently expressed outrage after Bravo talk show host Andy Cohen commented about the attractiveness of a nurse-actress on his show. Do you confront misconceptions about your role?
  Medscape Reader Polls, May 10, 2022
• Do NSAIDs Negate Bone Effect of Bisphosphonates? Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs showed signs of counteracting the effects of bisphosphonate on bone, according to new research.
  Reuters Health Information, May 06, 2022
• Stanford Health Care's Residents Vote to Join Union Stanford's residents are participating in a growing national trend toward unionization in medical education.
  Medscape Medical News, May 06, 2022
• Intra-articular Steroid/lidocaine Injection Improves Hip Arthritis Pain, Function A single injection into the hip of steroid and local anesthetic improved pain and function in patients with hip osteoarthritis in a randomized controlled trial, with most of the benefit seen early after treatment.
  Reuters Health Information, May 05, 2022
• COVID Drove Telehealth Forward in High Gear: Now What? Experts speaking at the American Telemedicine Association conference focused on how investment in telehealth spiked during the pandemic and what to expect in the near future.
  Medscape Medical News, May 05, 2022
• Advancing Digital Health Past Pandemic-Driven Telemedicine A panel discussion at a recent American Telemedicine Association conference zeroed in on the need to optimize digital health tools to meet consumer needs.
  Medscape Medical News, May 05, 2022