With multiple healthcare policy issues currently in play, Dr. Solow believes making rheumatologists’ voices heard is crucial to the specialty’s success.
Dr. Poole’s cited priorities include building an interprofessional membership team through developing resources and promoting rheumatology to health professionals in many disciplines.
(Reuters)—U.S. President Donald Trump has nominated Stephen Hahn, MD, chief medical executive of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, to lead the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the White House said on Friday. Dr. Hahn, a radiation oncologist who has been at MD Anderson in Houston since 2015, if confirmed would follow…
New research seeking to describe the characteristics of undefined, systemic autoinflammatory diseases may have identified distinct subgroups, including pericarditis and intellectual impairment…
A recent study has taken a more detailed look at the relationship between physical activity and the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Researchers found the more patients exercised weekly the lower their overall risk, specifically brisk and very brisk walking paces, along with longer cumulative average walking hours weekly were associated with a reduced risk for RA…
This study used up-to-date techniques to perform an exhaustive immunologic description of cryoglobulins with regard to characterization and quantification…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health)—Iguratimod, a disease-modifying drug marketed in China and Japan, appears to be effective in treating rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and possibly other autoimmune diseases, while protecting against adverse bone effects, researchers from China say. Iguratimod is a methane sulfonanilide compound that influences several anti-inflammatory and immune-modulatory pathways and has an anabolic effect on…
With massage chairs, creative spaces and therapy dogs, the Wellness Pavilion will offer this year’s Annual Meeting attendees respite from the busy conference atmosphere…
Past research has identified being of Northern European descent as a risk factor, among others such as age, sex and HLA DRB1, for developing giant cell arteritis (GCA). But new research casts doubts on this idea, finding that rates of biopsy proven GCA may not differ by race…