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Best Rheumatologists (7.19.2024)

This week on the RheumNow Podcast, Dr. Jack Cush reviews the news and journal reports of interesting, including irAE, pollution and Psoriasis, microwave therapy, scleroderma without scleroderma that only the best rheumatologists could discern.

JAK Inhibitors Reduce Macular Degeneration

Mepage Today

Insurance claims data showed that patients with autoimmune disorders who took Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitors had lower rates of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), hinting that the drugs might treat the common eye disease.

Geography of Arthritis-attributable Pain in the USA

The journal Pain has shown geographic differences in arthritis-attributable pain, arthritis-related outcomes mostly clustered in the Deep South and Appalachia, while severe arthritis pain is more prevalent in the Southwest, Pacific Northwest, Georgia, Florida, and Maine.  

Top 20 Best Rheumatology Hospitals - 2024

Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore has been named the top hospital for rheumatology by U.S. News & World Report. This is the 7th year in a row they have held this spot.

Updated EULAR Recommendations on the Treatment of Systemic Sclerosis

Medscape

Medscape has published an overview to the 2024 updated recommendations for the treatment of systemic sclerosis (SSc) presented in Vienna at EULAR 2024 by Professor Francesco Del Galdo, MD, PhD on behalf of a 27 member task force.

ACR Comments on CMS Proposed 2025 Physician Payment Rule

ACR
The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) shared the following initial reaction to the proposed CY 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) and Quality Payment Program rule.

Systemic sclerosis sine scleroderma

Systemic sclerosis sine scleroderma (ssSSc), which accounts for nearly 10% of systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients and was first described in 1962, is a subset of SSc.

Pathogenesis of Autoimmune Liver Disease

EurekAlert!

Autoimmune liver diseases (ALDs), including autoimmune hepatitis (AIH), primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), and primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), are complex conditions involving the liver's immune-mediated damage.

Pollution and Autoimmunity (7.12.2024)

Dr. Jack Cush reviews the news and journal articles from the past week on RheumNow.com.

PNAS & Nature Insights into Lupus Pathogenesis

Two prominent medical journals this week published new insights into the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), with both inidicating promient roles for T cells in what is a classically viewed as a humoral (B cell) disorder. 

Ultraprocessed Foods Increase Lupus Risk

MedPage Today
Among women followed for upwards of 25 years, those who ate relatively large amounts of "ultraprocessed" foods -- such as soft drinks, frozen pizzas, and mass-produced baked goods -- developed systemic lupus erythematosus at more than 50% greater rates than those with relatively low consumption, a new analysis of Nurses' Health Study data showed.

Progress in SLE with new mRNA CAR-T cell Trial

Cartesian Therapeutics, has announced their first-in-class mRNA-engineered chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy (mRNA CAR-T) therapy has been given to the first systematic lupus erythematosus (SLE). patient in a Phase 2 open-label clinical trial. 

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