Specialist Updates Rheumatology

First-line therapy for RA found to 'lack efficacy' in one-third of patients

6th December 2019
Nearly half of Australian patients initiated on a biologic or targeted synthetic drug for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) fail to…
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Specialist Updates Rheumatology

High-dose flu shot may be best in RA

6th December 2019
Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) may fare better with high-dose trivalent influenza vaccine rather than standard-dose…
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Specialist Updates Rheumatology

Few serious infections in babies exposed to non-TNF inhibitor biologics

5th December 2019
Children born to mothers with chronic inflammatory diseases, who took non-tumor-necrosis-factor (TNF) inhibitor biologics…
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Clinical Focus Case Report

Rheumatic complications in a patient with diabetes

29th November 2019
Patricia is 56 and attends for a routine diabetes review. She was diagnosed with diabetes four years ago. She has been…
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Examining the latest evidence on gut microbiota and allergy

5th December 2019
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Specialist Updates Rheumatology

Weather and air-pollution linked to lupus flares

21st November 2019
Changes in the weather and air pollution may contribute to organ-specific exacerbation in patients with SLE, a study shows. …
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Specialist Updates Rheumatology

Prednisolone effective short-term for hand OA pain

21st November 2019
Taking 10mg of prednisolone daily for six weeks produces a significant reduction in the pain of hand osteoarthritis, Dutch…
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Specialist Updates Rheumatology

A quarter of patients report RA onset differently to their rheumatologist

21st November 2019
One in four patients report rheumatoid arthritis symptom onset more than a month earlier or later than their rheumatologist,…
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