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Excess Thrombotic Risk in RA Has No Clear Driving Factor
Irrespective of age, duration of disease, and other factors, people with rheumatoid arthritis have a consistently higher risk for venous...
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Optimized Hospital Care for Gout Improves Uptake of Urate-Lowering Therapy
Almost all people who received in-hospital treatment for a gout flare were using urate-lowering therapy within 6 months of discharge after a...
From the Journals
Blood Biomarkers Predict Knee Osteoarthritis Years in Advance
The findings “provide valuable information for understanding the molecular events of early disease,” the authors wrote, but need to be validated...
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New British Behçet’s Disease Guidelines Emphasize Multidisciplinary Management
The British Society for Rheumatology and the British Association of Dermatologists developed guidelines for the management of people living with...
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Poor Use of ICD-10 Rheumatology Codes Suggests New Approach Needed for ICD-11 Adoption
Inflammatory arthritis codes increased from 14 to 425 from ICD-9 to ICD-10, yet only nine codes were commonly used in practice from 2015 to 2021...
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Oregon Physician Assistants Get Name Change
In June, Oregon PAs will be referred to as Physician Associates, a title change from Physician Assistants being debated nationwide.
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Are Direct-to-Consumer Microbiome Tests Clinically Useful?
The lack of reliability has been shown by experts who have tested the tests.
Feature
Federal Trade Commission Bans Noncompete Agreements, Urges More Protections for Healthcare Workers
But dissenting commissioners dispute the FTC’s authority to broadly ban noncompetes.
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Are Women Better Doctors Than Men?
Study finds female hospitalists provided better care, defined as lower 30-day mortality, than male hospitalists.
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Semaglutide Trial for Knee Osteoarthritis Shows Improvements in Pain, Physical Function
Results of the STEP 9 study in people with knee osteoarthritis and obesity show that semaglutide not only induced significant weight loss but also...
From the Journals
Sinonasal Symptoms Show Potential in Predicting GPA Vasculitis Relapse
Patients with GPA were two to three times as likely to experience disease relapse if they scored high on a patient-reported sinonasal symptom test...