Highlights in 50-year timeline of national healthcare legislation, proposals, and policies since the Social Security Act was adopted in 1965
Speak Out Rheum: Fifty Years of APLAR
A past president reminisces about the formation and history of the Asia Pacific League of Associations for Rheumatology on its 50th anniversary
Rheuminations: Fraud Casts a Pall on Medical Research
The history, causes, and effects of scientific misconduct and strategies to reduce fraud and plagiarism in clinical medicine
Speak Out Rheum: The First Days of Rheumatology
How the field has grown and flourished since rheumatology became a word in 1949
Rheuminations: Can Clothing Influence How Physicians Practice?
What doctors wear can affect how patients relate to them
Was Gout Rampant Among the Romans?
Lead in wine consumed by Romans may have contributed to a high incidence of gout among aristocrats of the Roman Empire
The ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting Provides Look Back at History of Rheumatology
The annual meeting of the American College of Rheumatology and Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals’ (ACR/ARHP) provide an opportunity to rewind through the history of rheumatology, and spotlight the speciality’s future
Three Giants of Immunology at USC
Prejudice, and how I became a rheumatologist.
ACR launches its First Public Relations campaign
Many of us have experienced that look—confusion—when you tell someone that you work in rheumatology. It happens at dinner parties, in line at the grocery store, and during conversations on airplanes. The look can open the door to conversations about rheumatology. However, when the influential people whose decisions affect our specialty don’t know who we…
What Would Our Forefathers Think?
ACR anniversary brings thoughts of the past to bear on today’s challenges