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Hospital Consult Plan Relieves On-Call Burden for Rheumatologist

July 14, 2015 • By Kim Stewart, MD

I found your recent article, “To Terminate or Not to Terminate?” (The Rheumatologist, April 2015), very relevant to my practice. The hospital system I practice in, Summa Health, Akron, Ohio, has two rheumatology groups with active hospital privileges. My partner and I are both part-time female rheumatologists who work for a hospital group, Summa Physicians… [Read More]

Glucocorticoid Use for Rheumatoid Arthritis Still Sparks Debate

June 15, 2015 • By Anand N. Malaviya, MD, FRCP, Master-ACR

Glucocorticoids: The Debate Continues Déjà vu … In past decades, rheumatologists have seen, heard, practiced and taught much of what has been argued in the “ongoing debate” on the use of glucocorticoids (GCs) in the management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA).1 It is heartening to note that eminent professors have stuck to their premise all these… [Read More]

Letters: Biomarkers for Rheumatoid Arthritis

May 15, 2015 • By Ronald van Vollenhoven, MD, PhD

Biomarkers for RA I read the article, “Finding Biomarkers in RA Remains Elusive Goal” (February 2015 The Rheumatologist), with great interest. The author correctly identifies the multi-biomarker disease activity assay (MBDA; Vectra DA) as a potential biomarker that identifies RA patients at risk for radiographic progression. The author names a study presented at the 2014… [Read More]

Letters: Standardize Squeeze Test for Inflammatory Arthritis?

May 15, 2015 • By Dr. David Vega Morales

Squeeze Test in Inflammatory Arthritis, Need for Standardization? The first use of the squeeze test as a clinical maneuver to detect inflammatory arthritis in patients with hand problems was described by Recth in 1988, and Morton described its use for patients with foot problems.1,2 In 1991, Eberhardt and Rigby proposed the clinical maneuver be used… [Read More]

Diagnostic Imaging in Patient with Elbow Pain: History

May 14, 2015 • By Veronika Sharp, MD, Midori Jane Nishio, MD, and Lily Kao, MD

Editor’s note: In this recurring feature, we first present a series of images (this page) for your review, and then a brief discussion of the findings and diagnosis. Before you turn to the discussion, examine these images carefully and draw your own conclusions. History These images were taken of an 85-year-old female with a one-year… [Read More]

Health Data Breaches on the Rise

April 15, 2015 • By Kathryn Doyle (Reuters Health)

Large-scale health data breaches reported by doctors and health plans have been rising steadily, a new report shows. From 2010 to 2013, nearly 1000 large breaches affected more than 29 million individual health records, and more than half resulted from theft or loss of laptops, thumb drives and paper records, according to researchers with access… [Read More]