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President’s Perspective: The ACR Creates Strategic Plan to Advance Rheumatology

Audrey B. Uknis, MD | June 1, 2013

ACR’s strategy for 2013-2016 includes advocacy efforts, educational programming and journals, and rheumatology research support

PR-COIN Initiative Takes Aim at Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

Mary Beth Nierengarten | June 1, 2013

The Pediatric Rheumatology Care and Outcomes Improvement Network uses clinical evidence and a network of collaborators to improve outcomes for children with JIA

Rheuminations: Circadian Rhythms May Play Role in Inflammatory Disease

Simon M. Helfgott, MD | May 1, 2013

Research into how the timing of light and dark exposures control our lives could provide clues to why some people have immunologic disorders

ACR Winter Rheumatology Symposium: New Kinase Inhibitors Show Promise

Staff | May 1, 2013

Toxicity and appropriate targeting are challenges for small molecule researchers

Fellow’s Forum Case Report: Diagnosing Antisynthetase Syndrome

Fawad Aslam, MBBS, and Elizabeth B. Russell, MD | May 1, 2013

A variable combination of interstitial lung disease, myopathy, fever, joint involvement, and mechanic’s hands characterize this systemic autoimmune syndrome

Rheuminations: New Rules for Rheumatologists

Simon M. Helfgott, MD | April 1, 2013

Transparent hospital costs, salary caps for senior hospital executives, and no more faxes top one rheumatologist’s wish list for revised healthcare rules

Practice Page: Deadline Approaching to Implement ICD-10 Coding Changes

Staff | April 1, 2013

Unless Congress enacts a delay, healthcare providers will need to implement the new ICD-10 code set changes by October 1, 2014, a mere 18 months away

ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2012: Tips to Diagnose and Treat Catastrophic Antiphospholipid Syndrome (CAPS)

Thomas R. Collins | April 1, 2013

CAPS is a rare, complex disease which involves sudden clotting on multiple fronts

ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2012: Genes Not the Only Factor in Susceptibility to Rheumatoid Arthritis

Susan Bernstein | March 1, 2013

Epigenetics, innate immunity, and environmental stresses such as smoking could have more influence than scientists once believed

Why Universal Access to Healthcare Isn’t a Constitutional Right, It’s Just Plain Fair

Richard Brasington, MD | March 1, 2013

One rheumatologist forms his opinion on the topic while fly fishing on rivers in Missouri