Practice Management News

Single injections of CD19 chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy brought long-lasting remission to 15 patients with three different autoimmune diseases, according to data published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Is it an allergy or an autoimmune vasculitis, or a little of both? Find out the story of urticarial vasculitis, how this disease was recognized and eventually sorted out from other types of urticaria.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Physical medicine and rehabilitation play an important role in recovering from fatigue symptoms in immune-mediated diseases, according to a speaker at the Basic and Clinical Immunology for the Busy Clinician symposium.

In this Healio video exclusive, Leonard Calabrese, DO, chief medical editor of Healio Rheumatology, discussed the top items from the February issue, including an exploration of how the placebo effect can be applied in rheumatology.

The FDA has approved Simlandi as the third interchangeable biosimilar to Humira following a rejection in April 2023 stemming from issues at the developer’s manufacturing facility.

Despite the placebo effect’s long history in medicine — not to mention the critical role placebo plays in randomized trials — the mechanism driving it remains poorly understood.

I am thrilled to introduce our cover story this month, “‘Exploring the Power of Their Mind’: Data May Offer Clues to Harnessing the Placebo Effect,” to the readers of Healio Rheumatology. I say this for several reasons.

The new CMS rule aiming to streamline prior authorization signals a major step forward for primary care, but the process could still use some improvement, according to experts.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Understanding how guidelines and recommendations are formed can make them “most helpful” in clinical practice, according to a presentation at the Basic and Clinical Immunology for the Busy Clinician symposium.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. —The COVID-19 pandemic could enable better understanding of the relationship between infection and autoimmunity, according to a speaker at the Basic and Clinical Immunology for the Busy Clinician symposium.