A school science project demonstrates that flipbooks can be a useful educational tool for patients and their families to learn about rheumatic conditions and their treatment.
Changes in the Rheumatology Workforce
Mannion et al. set out to describe the adult rheumatology workforce in the U.S. by measuring the number of rheumatologists and advanced practice providers entering and exiting the field and studying their demographics.
Meet the ACR’s Advocacy Team
It’s an election year, and ACR staff are excited about the possibility of moving key initiatives, such as Medicare reimbursement, across the finish line. But they need members’ help to do so.
This August, Advocate with the ACR from Home
August marks an in-district work period for federal legislators. This offers a great opportunity for ACR/ARP members to engage with their lawmakers to complement the ACR’s formal lobbying efforts.
Kidney Biopsy in Lupus Nephritis
SAN DIEGO—As part of a Nov. 14 session on lupus nephritis at ACR Convergence 2023, Simone Appenzeller, MD, PhD, shared perspectives on the importance of biopsy to inform its diagnosis, prognosis and treatment, with an emphasis on childhood disease. Prompt diagnosis and treatment of lupus nephritis is perhaps even more important for children than for…
A Case of Lupus Podocytopathy
Kidney involvement is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Collectively termed lupus nephritis, SLE with kidney involvement comes in many subtypes. The current classification by the International Society of Nephrology/Renal Pathology Society (ISN/RPS), however, does not include lupus podocytopathy, which, through various clinical and epidemiologic studies, has recently been…
Noncoding Self-RNA Implicated in Lupus Development
In 2022, an international group of researchers reported the seminal finding that a gain-of-function variant of a single-stranded ribonucleic acid (RNA) sensor, known as toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7), can cause human systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).1 The paper in Nature showed that a newly described variant of TLR7, identified in a child with severe lupus, was…
Chronic Pain & the Mind-Body Connection
Howard Schubiner, MD, shares what led him to focus on the mind-body connection during an episode of the ACR on Air podcast. He discusses recent research into how pain reprocessing may help patients suffering from psychological-related chronic pain.
Rheum for Everyone, Episode 9: Understand and Build Winner’s Triangles
In this episode, Dr. Kumar offers some advice for incoming rheumatology fellows: “Start constructing winner’s triangles.”
Ethics Forum: Regarding Chatbots in Rheumatology
Chatbots are not a new concept, but have recently gained popularity and traction. Launched in late 2022, ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer) is a web-based platform designed to simulate interactive conversations and deliver real-time data. It has quickly become a tool that provides instantaneous information that can be more focused than a Google search.1 We,…
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