Patients’ questions about pro- and anti-inflammatory diets can be challenging to address. Dr. Elena Nikiphorou provided insight into the latest research regarding the role of diet in rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases.
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EULAR & ACR Define Rheumatic & Musculoskeletal Disease for Laymen
Understanding rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) is an understandably tall order for the lay public, what with the huge number of conditions and the complex—and often little understood—processes involved. Now, a working group of the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) and the ACR has set out to try to correct this problem with a definition…
Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy May Help Slow, Repair Degenerative Signs of Osteoarthritis, Musculoskeletal Disease
WASHINGTON, D.C.—For patients with osteoarthritis and other age-related musculoskeletal diseases, treatment with mesenchymal stem cells may soon offer a potent way to slow and repair degenerative signs of disease. This is the goal, a goal that is moving from the laboratory to the clinic as results from ongoing randomized clinical trials show the safety and…
KeMo Disease: A Newly Recognized Debilitating Musculoskeletal Disease
Dr. Simon Helfgott’s essay, “Barking at the Moon,” in the July 2015 issue of The Rheumatologist, about the unintended consequences of EHRs (electronic health records) prompted me to share my experience regarding the newly recognized KeMo disease. Keyboarding and mouse-clicking (KeMo) activity now consumes about 50% of the medical clinician’s day, as the modern EHRs…
National Institute of Arthritis & Musculoskeletal & Skin Diseases Report for 2015
NIAMS director Stephen I. Katz, MD, PhD, highlights agency research, training planned for this year and beyond
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Complex, Multi-Challenging Disease
Reviewing the research presented at ACR Convergence 2024.
A Practical Guide to Autoantibody Testing in Rheumatic Diseases
“ANA’s are some of most commonly ordered tests but what exactly are they and what do you do with a positive ANA? Check out the Editor’s Pick for October to learn more,” says Physician Editor Bharat Kumar, MD, MME, FACP, FAAAAI, RhMSUS.
Plan Ahead: Clinical Tips for Managing Reproductive Health in Patients with Rheumatic Disease
Dr. May Ching Soh highlighted practical approaches when caring for pregnant patients with rheumatic disease.
CAR-T Cell Therapy in Autoimmune Disease: The Next Frontier
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has the potential to fundamentally shift the treatment of autoimmune disease. During his presentation at EULAR 2024, Georg Schett, MD, provided an overview of this treatment process and described the promising findings of the latest research.
When Rheumatologists Have Rheumatic Diseases
“I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.”1 These profound words from Abraham Verghese, MD, MACP, Linda R. Meier…
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