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Choosing Wisely’s Treatments, Tests that Pediatric Rheumatologists and Patients Should Question

Kurt Ullman | November 1, 2013

From autoantibody panels to assays for Lyme disease, the ACR and ABIM Foundation identify five common tests that are expensive, potentially harmful, and may not improve patient care

Study Points to Need for Increased Antirheumatic Therapy in Patients with Dyslipidemia

Lara C. Pullen, PhD | October 4, 2013

A new study suggests that patients diagnosed with RA as well as dyslipidemia may benefit from more aggressive antirheumatic therapy. (posted Oct. 3, 2013)

Coding Corner Answer: October Coding Challenge

Staff | October 1, 2013

Coding for an office visit by an obese Medicare patient with osteoarthritis (OA) whose knee is aspirated and injected with Synvisc-One

Rheumatology Research Foundation Announces 2013 Awards and Grants Recipients

Staff | September 1, 2013

The Foundation names winners of education and training awards, career development research awards, and disease-targeted research grants

ACR 2013 State-of-the-Art Clinical Symposium: What’s Next in Therapy for Osteoarthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and Lupus?

Kathy Holliman | August 1, 2013

Experts highlight treatment advances and challenges ahead in OA, RA, and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)

What Adult Rheumatologists Need to Know about Juvenile Arthritis

Peter A. Nigrovic, MD | May 1, 2013

How to recognize distinctions between pediatric and adult arthritis

New Treatment Paradigm Suggested for Osteoarthritis

Catherine Kolonko | May 1, 2013

Multidisciplinary group advocates for healthcare model to identify those at risk of developing OA or who have early stage disease

Rheuminations: Epigenetics May Help to Explain Why Some Get Rheumatic Disease

Simon M. Helfgott, MD | March 1, 2013

Recent research around genes and environmental stresses suggests outside influences can make lasting changes to the genome via epigenetic mechanisms

Letter: Should We Monitor Asymptomatic Hyperuricemia?

William Treuhaft, MD | March 1, 2013

Why have physicians stopped routine screening for hyperuricemia and is there any value to this screening?

ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2012: Physicians Search for Ways to Improve Clinical Outcomes for Total Knee Replacements (TKR)

Staff | March 1, 2013

Widely variable results for people post-TKR procedures have prompted doctors to develop a standardized approach to rehabilitation care