Although compelling data exist to support a link between periodontal disease (PD) and the development of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), cementing the association will require extensive investigative work.1 However, in reviewing the literature of the past 10 years, Elliot D. Rosenstein, MD, director, Institute for Rheumatic and Autoimmune Diseases at Overlook Medical Center, Summit, N.J., and…
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COPA Genetic Mutation Identified in Lung Disease, Arthritis
Researchers from California and Texas have identified a new genetic syndrome that is characterized by systemic autoimmune disease of the lung and joints. The syndrome is driven by a genetic variant of a vesicular transport protein and is the first documented association between intracellular transport and autoimmunity. Levi B. Watkin, PhD, postdoctoral fellow at Baylor…
Super-Group Physician Practices Offer Benefits, But Raise Concerns
Rheumatologists worried about the future of their private practices might want to consider jumping onto the super group trend that allows physicians and other providers with similar services to team up to share opportunities and minimize financial burdens. The biggest concern for private practice physicians watching the trend but not yet embracing it is fear…
Ethics Forum: Plagiarism in EMRs Saves Time, But Can Raise Risk of Errors
Case You’ve been asked to see an inpatient for a rheumatologic consultation. After seeing the patient, you enter an initial consult note in the electronic medical record (EMR). The next day, when you write a follow-up note for this patient, you copy part of your assessment and plan from your prior note. Soon after you…
2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting: Methotrexate Use in Patients with RA
Review of clinical research on methotrexate therapy, effect on patients’ functionality, tolerability, adverse events
Value of Patient Care Services in Rheumatology Gets Boost
By developing guidelines, quality measures, data on patient outcomes, the ACR helps rheumatologists translate the value of their work to the world
Rheumatology Research Foundation Support Helps Investigator Advance Study into Osteoclasts
Researcher Julia Charles, MD, PhD, gets additional funding support from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
UNC’s Thurston Arthritis Research Center in the Spotlight
Approachability, collaboration foster excellence in this basic science, clinical and epidemiological research program
2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting: Fibrotic Complications of Scleroderma
Rheumatology experts discuss challenge of selecting appropriate SSc patients with skin fibrosis for treatment
2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting: Biomarker Development
Molecular profiling plays key role
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