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Arthritis drug shows promise in coronavirus

12th May 2020
An arthritis drug appears to improve respiratory symptoms and reduce signs of cytokine storm in nearly three-quarters of…
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Do epidural corticosteroids help sciatica?

21st April 2020
Epidural corticosteroid injections provide limited, clinically unimportant relief of lumbosacral radicular pain, according…
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Clinical Focus Case Report

Did vaccines trigger this teenager's lupus?

15th April 2020
Yasmina, a 13-year-old daughter of a family from a war-torn nation, has lived in Australia since she was three. She is seen…
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immunisation
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Longer-term sciatica best treated with surgery

19th March 2020
Microdiskectomy surgery is the best option for treating long-term sciatica, doctors behind a randomised study of 128…
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leg pain
Medical Observer Opinion

Beware this underrecognised comorbidity in patients with gout

16th March 2020
The treatment of gout is considered suboptimal, despite the availability of efficacious urate-lowering therapies. Some…
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Gout
Clinical Focus Case Report

A rare side effect of widely used drugs

3rd March 2020
Genie is 68 and has been seeing you for some years. She has rheumatoid arthritis (RA) for which she takes diclofenac 50mg…
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Senior woman stomach ache
Clinical Focus Case Report

Long-standing foot nodules point to a rare disease

18th February 2020
Lewis, a 63-year-old Caucasian male, presents with a three-year history of multiple, slow-growing and painless nodules on…
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Foot ultrasound