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Answers sought for mental health challenges in pediatric rheumatology patients
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- Tara Haelle
One study found a tremendous increase in screening by automating the process while another found remote delivery of a 6-week cognitive-behavioral...
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Spinal cord stimulation may help diabetic neuropathy
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- Tara Haelle
Patients who received high-frequency stimulation for painful diabetic neuropathy showed sustained improvements in nerve function at 2 years.
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Parents of patients with rheumatic disease, MIS-C strongly hesitant of COVID vaccination
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- Tara Haelle
A single-center study and a survey of rheumatologists revealed similar levels of hesitancy among parents of both these populations.
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Pretransfer visits with pediatric and adult rheumatologists smooth adolescent transition
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- Tara Haelle
The time from the last pediatric visit to the first adult visit was substantially shorter for patients who had a dual provider pretransfer visit...
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Childhood lupus severity linked to social determinants of health
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- Tara Haelle
Social determinants of health were linked to lupus disease severity in children, but it will take more than awareness among doctors to address the...
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Little change in rheumatology faculty coverage in pediatric residency programs in nearly 20 years
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- Tara Haelle
There has been little improvement in addressing the shortage of pediatric rheumatologists over the past 2 decades, boding poorly for future...
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Metabolic syndrome linked to knee pain in middle adulthood
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- Tara Haelle
Metabolic syndrome that develops in middle age had a greater association with osteoarthritis knee symptoms and pain than metabolic syndrome that...
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Osteoarthritis adjunctive therapies offer negligible added benefit to exercise
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- Tara Haelle
Interventions such as electrophysical stimulation and acupuncture don’t appear to offer much benefit in reducing pain or improving physical...
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Antidepressants benefit some patients with osteoarthritis pain
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- Tara Haelle
Although some patients benefit from antidepressants for osteoarthritis pain, it’s difficult to know which patients will benefit and which will be...
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Link between knee pain, sleep disturbance related to daily activities
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- Tara Haelle
Findings suggested that it’s only knee pain, not the severity of knee osteoarthritis, that’s significantly associated with sleep disturbances, and...
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Presurgical expectations may influence patients’ attitudes, experiences after knee replacement
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- Tara Haelle
It may be worthwhile to discuss patients’ expectations about what they will be able to do with their knees postoperatively, but it’s unclear...
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New hope for MDS, with AML treatments
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- Tara Haelle
Slow progress in treating myelodysplastic syndrome is coming mostly with therapies first developed for acute myeloid leukemia.
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Early exercise intervention improves knee osteoarthritis
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- Tara Haelle
Even patients whose symptoms have lasted less than a year experience improvements in pain and physical function when they initiate exercise...
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IBD patients have limited protection against Omicron with third vaccine dose
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- Tara Haelle
Patients with IBD taking infliximab or tofacitinib may be more vulnerable to Omicron infection even after a third dose of a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine...
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Genomics data reveal promising PSC therapeutic target
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- Tara Haelle
Data mining of genomics related to primary sclerosing cholangitis also implicated genes involved in its pathogenesis and its complications,...