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AAP statement on child pedestrian safety: Educate families, advocate for walkable communities
The policy statements recommend pediatricians counsel families with anticipatory guidance on pedestrian safety as a child grows, and advocate for...
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Father’s influence impacts whether their infant is breastfed, follows safe sleeping practices
The results suggest that including fathers in conversations about breastfeeding and infant sleep practices could help improve adherence.
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Atogepant prevents episodic migraine in some difficult-to-treat cases
Initial results showed patients receiving oral atogepant had significantly fewer mean monthly migraine days, achieved 50% or greater reduction in...
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Mississippi–Ohio River valley linked to higher risk of Parkinson’s disease
“This study, along with others, suggest that some of the important environmental toxicants tied to brain disease may be inhaled.”
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Experts share early details prescribing avacopan for ANCA-associated vasculitis
Rheumatologists said more data are needed to determine optimal glucocorticoid tapering and treatment duration of avacopan for patients with ANCA-...
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Experts share real-world experience prescribing voclosporin, belimumab for lupus nephritis
While some rheumatologists expressed a treatment preference, patients with lupus nephritis tend to do well on both medications; however, cost and...
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Expert offers caveats to perioperative antirheumatic drug guideline
Experts say the 2022 ACR/AAHKS guideline on perioperative management of antirheumatic medications in total hip and total knee arthroplasty have a...
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Adaptations to education, training vital to alleviating rheumatologist shortage
Training the next generation of rheumatologists will involve giving and listening to more feedback as well as using new tools to boost engagement...
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Telemedicine usage still high among rheumatologists as interest wanes in other specialties
“For you to abandon telemedicine I think is a gigantic mistake,” Dr. Jack Cush said.
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Are repeat radiographs necessary in rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis?
“If a patient doesn’t achieve remission or very low disease activity, obtaining a radiograph doesn’t change what you do because the patient’s not...
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Remote electrical neuromodulation device helps reduce migraine days
The device decreased the number of migraine days by an average of 4 days per month.
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Brepocitinib improves symptoms of mild to moderate AD in phase 2b trial
In addition to AD, brepocitinib is currently being developed as a treatment for dermatomyositis, systemic lupus erythematosus, hidradenitis...
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ICD-10 code can identify patients with melasma for future study
“Overall, our results support the validity of using the ICD-10 code for melasma to identify patients with a diagnosis of melasma for future...
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Immediate skin-to-skin contact after cesarean section improves outcomes for parent, newborn
“One of the greatest take-home points from the study was that early skin-to-skin really promoted initiation of breastfeeding.”
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Health care providers should have higher suspicion for rare diseases
Learning to recognize when a cluster of symptoms doesn’t fit a pattern is important, as patients and their providers tend to gravitate toward...