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Changing Our Thinking on Osteoarthritis

March 1, 2010 • By Louis G. Pack DPM, MS

It’s time we changed our thinking on osteoarthritis... [Read More]

The Benefits of Our New Address: ACR Moves to 2200 Lake Boulevard NE

February 1, 2010 • By Stanley B. Cohen, MD

There are many perks to owning 2200 Lake Boulevard NE... [Read More]

Sex Differences & Rheumatoid Arthritis

December 1, 2009 • By Tuulikki Sokka, MD, PhD

The beliefs versus the data... [Read More]

Neurological Piece of the Fibromyalgia Puzzle

November 1, 2009 • By Daniel J. Clauw, MD

Exploring the peripheral and central elements of pain in FM... [Read More]

Another Vocabulary for Rheumatology Research

October 1, 2009 • By Gretchen Henkel

Matt Liang, MD, MPH, addresses patients’ authentic concerns... [Read More]

Turn Down the Pain Volume

October 1, 2009 • By Daniel J. Clauw, MD

Fibromyalgia’s evolution from discrete entity to prototypical central pain syndrome... [Read More]

Diagnosis: Myopathy

July 1, 2009 • By Edward C. Smith, MD, and Dwight D. Koeberl, MD, PhD

Presentation and evaluation of metabolic causes... [Read More]

Vasculitis

June 1, 2009 • By Gary S. Hoffman, MD

A New perspective on when and how it begins... [Read More]

PQRI Now Includes RA Measures Group

May 1, 2009 • By Salahuddin Kazi, MD, Melesia Tillman, CPC, CCP, and Amy S. Miller

In 2008, the only Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) measure that applied to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was disease-modifying antirheumatic drug therapy. For 2009, five new RA measures were included, for a total of six measures in the new RA Measures Group. The five new measures were developed in 2008 by the National Committee for Quality Assurance in collaboration with the ACR and the American Medical Association’s Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement and were subsequently adopted by Medicare.... [Read More]