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2018 RISE Users Meeting Guides You through MIPS Submission

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During the 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting, the ACR’s Registry Team will hold a RISE user group meeting to showcase the innovative, new RISE dashboard, designed to help maximize your performance scores for MIPS submission. We welcome current RISE users to share their experiences thus far and to be part of the improvement process as we…

Advocates for Arthritis Fly-In Event Benefits Rheumatology Patients

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Pendaar Pooyan was diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) in elementary school. He learned to ask for what he needed: use of a computer in class because of wrist pain and a locker that didn’t require him to bend down so far. And he learned to talk about his disease. This helped make participating for…

Bone Mineral Density Most Important Determinant of Fracture Risk

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health)—In what is believed to be the largest study investigating genetic and clinical determinants of osteoporotic fracture risk, only a genetic predisposition to low bone mineral density (BMD) had a potential causal role to play. “Notably, genetic predisposition to lower levels of vitamin D and estimated calcium intake from dairy sources were…

AstraZeneca Lupus Drug Fails to Meet Main Goal in Study

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(Reuters)—AstraZeneca’s experimental drug anifrolumab failed to meet its main target in a late-stage clinical study treating patients with moderate to severe lupus, the British drugmaker said on Friday. AstraZeneca said the drug did not meet the main goal in the final-stage of one of the two clinical trials under the TULIP program, failing to show…

Investigators Assess Infection Risk with RA Biologics

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Due to a range of factors, determining the precise infection risk posed by new biologic therapies to RA patients is difficult. But progress has been made and health registries may be helpful, said Olivier Lortholary, MD, PhD, during the 2018 EULAR: Annual European Congress of Rheumatology…