Rheumatology
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Look for centralized pain in rheumatic diseases
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Online self-help tool benefits rheumatoid arthritis patients
Major finding: Significant differences favoring the intervention group over the wait-list group were maintained from immediately after...
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Treatment options expand for pulmonary arterial hypertension in scleroderma
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Clinical prediction rule identifies risk for rheumatoid arthritis
Major finding: A cut-point of 8 or higher is good for ruling in RA, with a higher specificity (0.95) than sensitivity (0.49).Data source: Meta-...
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Bone mineral density identifies fracture risk in women over 65
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Adjuvant fish oil may help recent-onset RA
Major Finding: The primary outcome measure, failure of triple-DMARD therapy, occurred in only 10.5% of study subjects receiving fish oil...
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Bracing effective for idiopathic scoliosis in adolescence
Major finding: In the intention-to-treat analysis, the rate of treatment success was 75% with bracing vs.
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Isometric exercises among the recommendations for sports-related knee pain
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Biomarker panel predicts atherosclerosis in women with SLE
Major finding: The PREDICTS score had a sensitivity of 81%, a specificity of 79%, a positive predictive value of 40%, and a negative predictive...
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Secukinumab soars in phase III psoriasis studies
Major finding: The PASI 75 response rate at 12 weeks in patients with moderate to severe chronic plaque psoriasis was 77.1% in those randomized to...