Autoimmune And Rheumatic Diseases

In this Healio video exclusive, Leonard Calabrese, DO, chief medical editor of Healio Rheumatology, shouts out key stories in the September issue, including an in-depth feature about what young rheumatologists expect from the field.

This month’s roundtable features a group of budding rheumatologists, still in training, who share their thoughts on how to sort out, define and achieve their goals in the workplace.

Many rheumatologists working today have navigated the specialty from the era of deeply flawed treatments like gold, through epoch-defining shifts brought on by biologics, biosimilars and, most recently, the unexpected crisis of COVID-19.

A novel remote monitoring app could help patients provide real-time information about their disease — including flares and other health care visits — to their rheumatologist in the long durations between visits.

Switching from a TNF inhibitor to upadacitinib leads to significantly better outcomes in rheumatoid arthritis vs. cycling TNF inhibitors or switching to another mechanism of action, according to data published in Advances in Therapy.

Protecting immunocompromised individuals from infections like herpes zoster is an ongoing challenge for every rheumatologist.

Most new organ damage in systemic lupus erythematosus occurs in the first year after diagnosis, with the greatest impacts reported in the cardiovascular and musculoskeletal systems, according to data published in Lupus Science & Medicine.

Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy and precision medicine will highlight the agenda at the 40th annual Congress of Clinical Rheumatology West, set for Sept. 26 to Sept. 29 in San Diego, California.

Nearly all biologic and targeted synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs come with infection or malignancy warnings from U.S. or European regulatory agencies, according to a study published in Drug Safety.

In this Healio video exclusive, Leonard Calabrese, DO, chief medical editor of Healio Rheumatology, shouts out key stories in the August issue, including an in-depth cover on language barriers as a major driver of health care disparities.