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Saddled with med school debt, yet left out of loan forgiveness plans
Drawing an income line inappropriately restricts those in health care from receiving any forgiveness.
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Experts: EPA should assess risk of sunscreens’ UV filters
The assessment is urgently needed and the results should be shared with the Food and Drug Administration, the experts said.
From the Journals
In RA, tofacitinib shows higher infection rate than TNF inhibitors
Patients with rheumatoid arthritis are at greater risk for infection if they’re treated with tofacitinib than with a TNFi, researchers reported in...
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Long COVID’s grip will likely tighten as infections continue
“If we conservatively assume 100 million working-age adults have been infected, that implies 10 to 33 million may have long COVID.”
From the Journals
Stopping JIA drugs? Many can regain control after a flare
About 67% of patients who stopped medications for well-controlled JIA got their condition under control by 1 year after postflare treatment,...
Feature
How well do vaccines protect against long COVID?
“We also now have quite a lot of evidence that vaccination does reduce your risk of long COVID – probably because it reduces your risk of severe...
Guidelines
ACR makes changes to adult, pediatric vaccinations guidance
The pneumococcal, recombinant zoster, and HPV vaccines are among those recommended for patients taking immunosuppressive medications.
Conference Coverage
Clinicians can help people with severe ME/CFS, even unseen
About a quarter of people with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome are homebound or bedbound, making medical office visits...
From the Journals
Many patients with acute anterior uveitis may have undiagnosed spondyloarthritis
A cross-sectional study’s finding that more than half of patients with noninfectious acute anterior uveitis also had spondyloarthritis suggests...
Conference Coverage
Treatments explored to ease postviral symptoms of ME/CFS and long COVID
“There aren’t cures, but there are many management techniques to improve symptoms.”
From the Journals
How retraining your brain could help with lower back pain
New research debuts a novel effective treatment for chronic pain.