Rheumatology Perspective

• Preventing Future Osteoporotic Fragility Fractures   After surgery for fracture of her left hip, an active 72-year-old woman is evaluated by a multidisciplinary team of experts for osteoporosis and for prevention of a future fracture.
  Medscape, July 25, 2024
• How the New Vitamin D Guidelines Will, and Won't, Change My Practice Dr Kenny Lin explains why he might recommend vitamin D supplements for some groups, but not necessarily for others.
  Medscape Family Medicine, July 24, 2024
• A Cash Giveaway to Improve Health   We can't just give cash to low-income folks instead of food to improve their health, can we? That's just what these researchers did.
  Medscape, July 22, 2024
• Laboratory-Developed Meat: Ethicist Says It's Worth Pursuing   Ethicist Art Caplan discusses considerations for laboratory-developed meat.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, July 22, 2024
• Avoid These Common Mistakes in Treating Hyperkalemia Asking patients to adhere to potassium restrictions for longer than needed is one frequent error, according to an experienced dietician.
  Medscape Nephrology, July 22, 2024
• How to Manage Common Abdominal and Gastric Symptoms: Expert Pearls   Dr David Johnson provides tips and techniques for treating abdominal pain, gastroparesis, gas and bloating, and other common conditions.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, July 22, 2024
• Treating Psoriatic Arthritis in Primary Care A rheumatologist reviews the main updates to the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology's 2019 recommendations.
  Medscape Rheumatology, July 19, 2024
• Does This 'Stem Cell' Therapy Contain Any Actual Stem Cells?   Dr F. Perry Wilson explains why — at the moment — we have reason to be skeptical about stem cell therapies marketed for commonplace aches and pains.
  Medscape, July 16, 2024
• Chronic Neck Pain: A Primary Care Approach The Curbsiders discuss how to evaluate a patient with neck pain, and differentiate between mechanical neck pain, radiculopathy, and myelopathy.
  The Curbsiders, July 10, 2024
• Be Alert for Conjunctivitis: New Human Cases of H5N1 Bird Flu   Clinicians should be aware of the symptoms of bird flu seen in the first few human cases.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, July 09, 2024
• Infographic: PAs Feel Content With Jobs Despite Challenges A Medscape survey found that physician assistants (PAs) generally expressed high satisfaction with their careers despite various challenges.
  Medscape, July 09, 2024
• Key Data in Rheumatoid Arthritis From EULAR 2024   Key data in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) from EULAR 2024 include abatacept vs adalilmumab in early RA, the effect of DMARDs on development of interstitial lung disease, and results of the TREAT EARLIER trial.
  Medscape, July 03, 2024
• How Facial Temperature Reveals Age and Disease Find out why Dr F. Perry Wilson says that the medical tricorder perhaps wasn't as fanciful as it seemed when it was used by Dr Beverly Crusher on "Star Trek."
  Medscape, July 02, 2024
• Q&A: Comorbidities in Myasthenia Gravis Nicholas Silvestri, MD, reviews the main comorbidities seen in myasthenia gravis.
  Medscape Neurology, July 01, 2024
• Myasthenia Gravis Treatment: 5 Things to Know Myasthenia gravis, a rare autoimmune disease, can have devastating consequences. Stay current on the latest and emerging MG treatments with these five things to know.
  Medscape Neurology, June 28, 2024
• Medscape Physician Assistant Career Satisfaction Report 2024 Despite overall career satisfaction among physician assistants, a minority express concerns about their relationship with doctors, patients, and administrators.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, June 28, 2024
• Online Diagnosis of STIs? Ethicist Says We Are Nowhere Close Ethicist Art Caplan discusses the use of websites for diagnosing sexually transmitted diseases.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, June 24, 2024
• Transplant Ethics: Quality of Life & Functional Restoration   Art Caplan discusses the ethics of transplanting for quality of life, not for functional restoration.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, June 17, 2024
• First Generation to Have More Cancer Than Their Parents   But how worried should we be? Dr F Perry Wilson breaks it all down.
  Medscape, June 11, 2024
• AMA President on a System in Crisis Outgoing AMA president Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, talked recently with Medscape about the obstacles ahead for America's physicians.
  Medscape Medical News, June 10, 2024