Viewpoints

Rheumatologists Challenged in the Era of COVID-19 Drs Kevin Deane and Duane Pearson discuss the challenges and opportunities the COVID-19 pandemic presents for rheumatologists and their patients.
Experts And Viewpoints, April 24, 2020
Using New Autoantibodies in Rheumatic Disease: An Update Dr Kevin Deane explains how recent advances are shining a light on the potential role that newer autoantibodies may play in the clinical care of RA, myositis, and scleroderma.
Experts And Viewpoints, May 23, 2019
Managing Rheumatic Conditions in Pregnancy Dr Kevin Deane reviews new data on treatment outcomes during pregnancy in women with autoimmune diseases.
Experts And Viewpoints, March 02, 2018
2017 Advances in Rheumatology Dr Kevin Deane reviews new trials, new treatments, and other major breakthroughs in rheumatology over the past year.
Experts And Viewpoints, December 29, 2017
Toward Earlier Identification of Rheumatic Diseases Dr Kevin Deane reviews two new studies that offer simple approaches to improve early recognition of RA and SLE in primary care.
Experts And Viewpoints, July 12, 2017
Identifying Preclinical Psoriatic Arthritis in Hope of Prevention Dr Kevin Deane explains how this new research may provide a window of opportunity for preventing psoriatic arthritis.
Experts And Viewpoints, May 31, 2017
Diet and Risk for Rheumatoid Arthritis Dr Kevin Deane highlights a new study exploring how a healthy diet can influence the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis.
Experts And Viewpoints, April 11, 2017
White Blood Cells Can Predict Steroid Response in OA Dr Kevin Deane highlights a study showing that higher synovial fluid white blood cell counts are associated with improved pain after methylprednisolone injection.
Experts And Viewpoints, February 21, 2017
Getting Your RA Patients to Stop Smoking Dr Kevin Deane looks at a new study comparing separate methods for getting patients with RA to give up cigarettes for good.
Experts And Viewpoints, February 13, 2017
10 Rheumatology Advances From 2016 Dr Kevin Deane reviews new trials, new treatments, and other major breakthroughs in rheumatology over the past year.
Experts And Viewpoints, December 19, 2016
In RA, When to Stop Anti-TNF Therapy Dr Kevin Deane discusses a new study assessing whether patients in remission or with stable low disease activity could safely stop therapy.
Experts And Viewpoints, November 17, 2016
A Promising Treatment for Polymyalgia Rheumatica Dr Kevin Deane highlights the latest data with this therapy and what it might mean for both polymyalgia rheumatica and giant-cell arteritis.
Experts And Viewpoints, November 11, 2016
Obesity, OA, and the Need for Knee Replacement Dr Deane reviews and discusses a study that looks at the relationship between increasing body mass index and knee replacement among patients with osteoarthritis.
Experts And Viewpoints, May 31, 2016
Biologics: An Important Piece of Patient Advice Dr Deane reviews and discusses a study finding that the majority of patients receiving a biologic drug for their rheumatic disease did not store it at the correct temperature.
Experts And Viewpoints, May 26, 2016
How Should We Define Sacroiliitis? Dr Deane reviews a study that evaluated the Assessment of SpondyloArthritis international Society (ASAS) in a cohort of patients with persistent low back pain.
Experts And Viewpoints, April 28, 2016
Should RA Diagnostic Cut-off Points Be Lowered? Dr Deane reviews the results of a study evaluating different cut-off points for scores to diagnose rheumatoid arthritis with the 2010 ACR/EULAR criteria.
Experts And Viewpoints, April 19, 2016
Sustaining Remission After RA Therapy Ends Dr Deane discusses results from a randomized trial evaluating maintenance of remission after rapid withdrawal of abatacept and methotrexate--alone or in combination.
Experts And Viewpoints, March 30, 2016
In Those With Psoriasis, Treat for Arthritis? Dr Deane reviews the results of a study that identified and followed patients with cutaneous psoriasis to determine their risk of developing inflammatory arthritis.
Experts And Viewpoints, March 28, 2016
Casting a 'NET' to Find New Therapies for Lupus Dr Deane discusses a study that first examined the role of neutrophil extracellular traps in lupus pathophysiology, and then evaluated metformin to reduce disease flares in a proof-of-concept trial.
Experts And Viewpoints, March 02, 2016
The Link Between Sleep Apnea and Gout Dr Deane discusses a recent study that found an association between incident gout and sleep apnea, providing further evidence for a link between cardiopulmonary physiology and hyperuricemia.
Experts And Viewpoints, February 25, 2016

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