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Enhanced education, customized follow-up options improve STD retesting rates

Posted on: 03/07/2014 - 16:25

ATLANTA – Educating patients treated for chlamydia or gonorrhea about reinfection and retesting, and providing customized options for follow-up care, increased patient retest return rates by 15% in a...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

SLE patients in remission safely stop immunotherapy

Posted on: 30/06/2014 - 18:45

PARIS – When patients with lupus who were in remission on an immunosuppressant drug and a low dosage of prednisone stopped their immunosuppressant, 70% remained flare free 2 years off...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Slow tapering worked best for stopping SLE immunosuppression

Posted on: 30/06/2014 - 15:10

PARIS– When physicians withdrew immunosuppressant treatment from lupus patients in long-term remission, a gradual tapering down of their immunosuppressant treatment produced a lower rate of...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

High gonorrhea reinfection rate underscores need for rescreening

Posted on: 27/06/2014 - 18:10

ATLANTA – Gonorrhea reinfection rates are high among women in Florida, with more than 1 in 4 becoming reinfected after treatment, according to a review of surveillance data. Of 9,923 female Florida...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Sarilumab shows RA safety, efficacy in phase III trial

Posted on: 26/06/2014 - 21:45

PARIS – Treatment with the interleukin-6–blocking drug sarilumab led to statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvements in patients with rheumatoid arthritis in a multicenter,...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Reoperative bariatric surgery yields low complication rates, susbstantial weight loss at 1 year

Posted on: 26/06/2014 - 19:25

CHICAGO – Reoperative bariatric surgery has impressively low major morbidity and mortality, substantial 1-year weight loss, and a high rate of resolution of the common obesity-linked comorbid...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Physically demanding jobs link to worse ankylosing spondylitis progression

Posted on: 25/06/2014 - 22:40

PARIS – Patients with ankylosing spondylitis who worked at more physically-demanding jobs showed greater radiographic progression than did patients who performed more sedentary jobs in a prospective...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Eurofever Project takes aim at rare autoinflammatory disorders

Posted on: 25/06/2014 - 17:30

PARIS – A large international registry aims to gather extensive data on the presentation, complications, and treatment response of rare autoinflammatory diseases in both children and adults,...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Factors that lead to gout often differ in men and women

Posted on: 24/06/2014 - 22:15

PARIS – Women have different predisposing risk factors for gout than do men, who more often fit the stereotypical profile of patients with gout who consume foods that increase the risk of the...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Tool predicts lymphoma, death in primary Sjögren’s syndrome patients

Posted on: 23/06/2014 - 19:20

The European League Against Rheumatism Sjögren’s Syndrome Disease Activity Index measured at the time of diagnosis predicted the development of lymphoma and death in Spanish patients with severe...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

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