Exclusive: ACR Convergence 2024| Focus Rheums

An official publication of the ACR and the ARP serving rheumatologists and rheumatology professionals

Research Funded by Within Our Reach Highlighted

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Five Within Our Reach science investigators provided overviews and updates of their RA research projects to the newly formed Within Our Reach advisory board at its inaugural meeting, held November 8, 2007.

Meet the Affiliate Society Council

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The Affiliate Society Council (ASC), a subcommittee of the Committee on Rheumatologic Care, will replace the Regional Advisory Council as a support mechanism for the ACR when working with rheumatology programs at the local and national level. It launched in January. The ASC and the ACR will work in conjunction with state and local societies on practice advocacy issues and create best practices for information sharing.

Systemic Vasculitis

Virginia Hughes  |  

Low incidence makes research and diagnosis a challenge

Pediatric BOOST

Terry Hartnett  |  

Many innovative programs aim to meet the increasing need for pediatric rheumatologists

Osteoarthritis Quo Vadis

Roland W. Moskowitz, MD  |  

Our knowledge of OA has progressed far—does a cure lie ahead?

In Memoriam: John Bland, MD

Paul Plotz, MD  |  

John Hardesty Bland, MD, professor of medicine emeritus at the University of Vermont College of Medicine in Burlington, died on March 15, 2007. He was midway through his 90th year, fulfilling the prescription of his last book, Live Long, Die Fast: Playing the Aging Game to Win, published when he was 80. A consummate rheumatologist and wonderful bedside doctor and teacher, Dr. Bland was also one of the genuine polymaths in the American medical world.

Reading Rheum

Maripat Corr, MD; Daniel Hal Solomon, MD, MPH  |  

Handpicked Reviews of Contemporary Literature