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What to Expect in Healthcare Policy from the 2023 State Legislative Sessions

Joseph Cantrell, JD  |  

With 2023 state legislative sessions underway, early prevailing themes may forecast areas where we will see gains this year. Key issues include utilization management, copay accumulator bans, white bagging and pharmacy benefit manager reform.

Rheumatology Research Foundation Supports High-Risk, High-Reward Ideas

Leslie Mertz, PhD  |  

Now in the second year of his 2021–2023 term as the Rheumatology Research Foundation president, V. Michael Holers, MD, a professor of medicine and immunology and the Smyth Professor of Rheumatology at the University of Colorado, Denver, is looking forward to fortifying and expanding the Foundation’s missions in the framework of its new strategic plan.

FDA Approves Abaloparatide to Treat Men with Osteoporosis & a High Risk of Fracture

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In late December, the FDA approved subcutaneous abaloparatide for the treatment of men with osteoporosis at a high risk of fracture. This approval is based on a placebo-controlled study that showed abaloparatide led to significant increases in bone mineral density of the lumbar spine, total hip and femoral neck. Abaloparatide was approved in April 2017 for the treatment of postmenopausal women with osteoporosis at high risk for fracture.

Winter 2023’s Awards, Appointments & Announcements in Rheumatology

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Akiko Iwasaki, PhD, Receives the 2022 Lupus Insight Prize   In June 2022, the Lupus Research Alliance (LRA) awarded its Lupus Insight Prize to Akiko Iwasaki, PhD, for her discovery of the link between endogenous retroviruses and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Dr. Iwasaki, who is a Sterling Professor of Immunobiology and a professor of dermatology,…

ACR Convergence 2022 Closing Session Discusses Research Highlights

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PHILADELPHIA—Expert panelists gathered in the closing session at ACR Convergence 2022 to give their take on what they saw as some of the most notable research findings and other insights to come out of the meeting, touching on a number of topics on the leading edge of the field. COVID-19 Prophylaxis & Vaccinations Alfred Kim,…

Top 10 Tricks for the Management of Dry Mouth

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PHILADELPHIA—Whether due to Sjögren’s disease or something else, dry mouth is a common chief complaint from patients with rheumatic illnesses. Dry mouth isn’t life-threatening, but it can have a serious impact on quality of life. Sialogogues like cevimeline and pilocarpine may benefit some, but not all, patients, but cholinergic side effects often limit their usefulness….

How to Welcome and Care for Gender-Diverse Patients

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PHILADELPHIA—Acknowledging the complexities of medical care for transgender (trans) and nonbinary or gender-diverse patients and emphasizing the urgency of doing it right, two experts offered guideposts to clinicians in an ACR Convergence 2022 session titled Dignity and Respect: How to Welcome and Care for Gender Diverse Patients in Your Practice, with advice on providing clinical…

Case Report: World Trade Center Dust Stokes a Foreign Body Reaction

Branden Ireifej, MD, Lea Meir, MD, Emily Gutowski, MD, Hansen Lam, MD, & Wei Wei Chi, MD  |  

The terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center (WTC) that led to their destruction on Sept. 11, 2001, as well as the subsequent year-long cleanup of the site (i.e., Ground Zero) in 2001 and 2002, not only had immediate implications for the lives and health of thousands of individuals at the…

Case Report: A Long, Arduous Evaluation Capped by Genetic Testing

Saud Abaalkhail, MD, Muhammad Umair Javaid, DO, & Amarie Negron Rodriguez, MD  |  

Systemic autoinflammatory diseases (SAIDs) are rare syndromes characterized by alterations in innate immunity that result in a variety of clinical manifestations that are usually associated with recurrent fevers.1 Thanks to advances in genetic sequencing over the past few years, monogenic causes for some of these autoinflammatory diseases, such as Yao syndrome, have been discovered.2 Previously…

Case Report: Adult-Onset Still’s Disease with Complications

Cristina Romaniello, DO, & Caitlin Kesari, MD  |  

The following report outlines a case of newly diagnosed adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD) complicated by macrophage activation syndrome (MAS) in a previously healthy and active 32-year-old man who had emigrated from Africa to the U.S. Case A man with no prior medical history presented with acute-onset polyarthritis, fevers and fatigue that began one month previously….