Rheumatology News

• Don't Call Me 'Dr', Say Some Physicians. Most Disagree Patients "untitling" physicians has become more common. Some doctors think it's a positive trend, but others feel that the honorific title helps reinforce the physician's medical knowledge.
  Medscape Medical News, November 23, 2022
• ACEP 2022 There's an App for That: Let Technology Do the Work for You How to sift through the social media, blogs, and references for what is useful in practice.
  Medscape Medical News, November 23, 2022
• Alert FDA Alert: 'Substantial' Hypocalcemia Risk with Prolia Use The US Food and Drug Administration sent an alert today that it's investigating an apparent link between the use of denosumab (Prolia) by patients on dialysis and serious hypocalcemia outcomes.
  Medscape Medical News, November 22, 2022
• New Docs Find Both Fulfillment and Frustration in First Years Whether you just became an attending or have a few years under your belt, the newest generation of physicians speaks out about the good, the bad and the ugly within the medical field.
  Medscape Medical News, November 22, 2022
• ACR 2022 ACR, EULAR Roll Out Updated Antiphospholipid Syndrome Criteria A joint planning group proposes updates to 16-year-old criteria for classifying antiphospholipid syndrome.
  MDedge News, November 22, 2022
• ACR 2022 Sarilumab Effective for Polymyalgia Rheumatica in Phase 3 Trial Relapsing patients treated with the biologic had significantly higher sustained remission and reported better quality of life, compared with the control group, in a randomized controlled trial.
  Medscape Medical News, November 21, 2022
• EMA Recommends Limiting the Indications for JAK Inhibitors The European authorities seek to minimize the risk of serious side effects with which these immune-modulating medicines are associated.
  Medscape Medical News, November 21, 2022
• NP Fined $20K for Advertising Herself as 'Doctor Sarah' Although the California nurse practitioner held a doctor of nursing practice degree, she violated the state’s patient protection law restricting who may call themselves "doctor."
  Medscape Medical News, November 21, 2022
• ACR 2022 Intensive Gout Treatment Meets Urate Goal, Lowers Tophi Burden The second randomized trial of therapy to intensively lower urate for patients with gout showed benefits in meeting serum urate goal, tophus size, and decreasing ultrasound sign.
  Medscape Medical News, November 18, 2022
• ACR 2022 First Classification Criteria Proposed for Chronic Osteomyelitis The disease and its more severe form, chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis, have been diagnosed by exclusion, which can delay treatment and referral.
  Medscape Medical News, November 18, 2022
• Doctors Fume Over Harmful Delays in Prior Authorizations Physicians feel overwhelmed by the rising volume of prior authorizations that insurers require and denials that can harm patients, sounding off in a recent Medscape poll.
  Medscape Medical News, November 18, 2022
• ACR 2022 Denosumab May Halt Erosive Hand Osteoarthritis Progression In a randomized clinical trial, denosumab seemed to halt progression of erosive hand osteoarthritis, but had a delayed impact on pain.
  MDedge News, November 18, 2022
• ACR 2022 Knee OA Pain Eased in Community-Based Weight-Loss Programs Participants who dieted and exercised in a community-based randomized trial had reductions in knee pain at 18 months; controls also improved somewhat.
  MDedge News, November 18, 2022
• ACR 2022 HCQ Doesn't Prevent or Delay Onset of Rheumatoid Arthritis A randomized clinical trial found that hydroxychloroquine was no more effective than placebo at preventing or delaying onset of rheumatoid arthritis.
  MDedge News, November 18, 2022
• ACR 2022 Combination Therapy May Boost Remission in JIA Three-year outcome data from the STOP-JIA study showed that early methotrexate plus a biologic may aid remission and disease inactivity in pediatric polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis.
  MDedge News, November 17, 2022
• Education, Resetting Pain Expectations Vital to Less Opioid Use Orthopedic surgeons should be mindful of overtreating pain with opioids, managing patient expectations by discussing a postoperative medication plan and offering lots of alternatives, from ice to NSAIDs.
  Medscape Medical News, November 17, 2022
• Celiac Disease Linked to Higher Risk for RA, JIA Clinicians caring for patients with celiac disease should have a low threshold to evaluate arthritic conditions.
  Medscape Medical News, November 17, 2022
• ACR 2022 Combo Therapy Shows Mixed Results for SSc-Related Lung Disease A study of mycophenolate mofetil alone and in combination with pirfenidone for scleroderma-related interstitial lung disease showed mixed results.
  MDedge News, November 16, 2022
• Residents React: Has Residency Become Easier or Overly Difficult? Do medical residents have it easier than in years past? What have pass-fail Step 1 exams and online interviews done for residency? Here's what residents are saying.
  Medscape Medical News, November 16, 2022
• ACR 2022 Prednisone, Colchicine Equally Efficacious for CPP Arthritis In an open-label, randomized trial, 1 in 5 patients on colchicine had diarrhea, tipping the safety scales in favor of prednisone.
  MDedge News, November 16, 2022