Looking beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, one practice has combined its telemedicine functionality with long-term workflow solutions, including telemedicine technology that integrates with its electronic health records system…
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Adapting Care for Pediatric Patients & Parents During the Pandemic: Q&A with Sangeeta Sule, MD, PhD
Social distancing and telemedicine are creating unique challenges for pediatric rheumatologists to care for their patients—many of whom are 5 years old or younger. Sangeeta Sule, MD, PhD, discusses how her clinic is adapting…
Fear & Hope in the Era of the Modern Plague
This plague has affected each one of us, our families and friends, and abruptly, it has altered the way we relate to one another.
3 U.S. Children with COVID-19 Have Rare Inflammatory Syndrome
CHICAGO (Reuters)—Three U.S. children infected with the coronavirus are being treated for a rare inflammatory syndrome that appears similar to one that has raised concerns by doctors in Britain, Italy and Spain, a specialist treating the patients told Reuters. All three—who range in age from 6 months to 8 years—have undergone treatment at Columbia University…
On Pandemics & Uncertainty: One Rheumatologist’s Story
As the mystery solvers, we are supposed to be comfortable with the unknown, but how does that translate when COVID-19 hits home? A rheumatologist contracts COVID-19.
Chikungunya Virus Vaccine Shows Promise in Early Clinical Trial
NEW YORK (Reuters Health)—A new chikungunya virus-like-particle vaccine appears to be safe and immunogenic, according to results from a phase 2 trial. “The phase 2 safety, tolerability and immunogenicity were similar to the data seen in an earlier phase 1 study,” Grace L. Chen, MD, of the National Institutes of Health Vaccine Research Center, Bethesda,…
Upper Limb Exercise May Improve Quality of Life for Lupus Patients
A recent study found SLE patients may improve their daily physical function, pain and overall quality of life by adding upper limb exercises to stable treatment regimens and routine care…
The Latest Advances in Sjögren’s, Scleroderma, RA, Gout & More
ATLANTA—At the ACR/ARP 2019 Annual Meeting, several widely renowned experts across an array of specialty subjects provided a comprehensive and compelling review of advances in the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of a number of rheumatologic conditions. Sjögren’s Syndrome Frederick Vivino, MD, FACR, chief of rheumatology at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center and professor of clinical medicine…
Case Report: A Patient’s Clubbing & Arthralgias Resist Diagnosis
A 59-year-old woman presented to our rheumatology clinic with a six-month history of a symmetric polyarthritis. She initially experienced pain in both knees. As time progressed, she began to notice pain in her ankles, hips, shoulders, hands and feet. She experienced joint stiffness lasting for more than 30 minutes every morning. She also described worsening…
2 Patients on Different DMARDs Experience Different COVID-19 Disease Courses
In March 2020, an elderly married couple living on Long Island, N.Y., presented to our emergency department with symptoms suspicious for COVID-19 infection. The wife, a-76-year-old woman, presented with complaints of subjective fevers, minimal dry cough and headaches of one-week duration. She denied having any chills, rhinorrhea, diarrhea, abdominal pain or shortness of breath. Two…
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