Attention to factors beyond the standard nociceptive model of painin patients with hand OA, including psychosocial considerations &other comorbidities, may impact a patient’s pain perception &pain course.
The bill also enhances the state’s service cancelable loan program to help address critical shortages in the healthcare workforce. Much of the language draws from model policy previously developed by the ACR.
For the 2024 Image Competition, the ACR sought images with educational or remarkable manifestations representing a diverse range of pediatric patients with autoimmune, inflammatory, infectious and malignant drivers of rheumatic disease. Here, we showcase the winning images from South Asia.
In the Netflix series Man on the Inside, Ted Danson portrays a lonely, 75-year-old widower and retired professor living near San Francisco. When a private investigator offers him the opportunity to go undercover to investigate the disappearance of a necklace at an assisted living community, Danson’s character leaps at the chance. How often in one’s…
Many rheumatology researchers share concerns about the landscape for future opportunities, given recent pressures from the current presidential administration. These may make an already challenging environment even more difficult for academic physicians to successfully navigate. But many in the field will persevere despite obstacles, driven by the need to deepen understanding of these conditions and…
For the 2024 Image Competition, the ACR sought images with educational or remarkable manifestations representing a diverse range of pediatric patients with autoimmune, inflammatory, infectious and malignant drivers of rheumatic disease. Here, we showcase the winning images from North America. Patient Presentation A 3-year-old boy presented with a four-month history of rash and hand blisters….
I often think about medical literature as a sprawling metropolis. There are towering skyscrapers of randomized controlled trials, lofty schools of systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and verdant parks of qualitative studies. Much less assuming are the case reports, which are sort of like homesteads for the majority of people who publish and contribute to the…
With three new endowments established, the ACR Rheumatology Research Foundation aims to support and inspire the future of rheumatology and the innovative research that will one day benefit patients.
Here participants in the ACR’s Rheum With a (re)View program discuss how its mentors provided them with skills and knowledge that benefit their careers and rheumatology as a community.
Eric L. Matteson, MD, MPH, & Evelyn Hsieh, MD, PhD |
Rheumatology workforce challenges are a global concern. Many challenges, especially the lack of trained rheumatology clinicians, are similar among countries and regions of the world, while others differ. The 2024 ACR Global Summit session on workforce featured a discussion by representatives of regional rheumatology organizations and the ACR addressing issues central to developing and retaining…