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Gender imbalance seen in authorship of rheumatology guidelines
Women are significantly underrepresented in first authorship of rheumatology guidelines and recommendations.
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New guideline offers recommendations for reproductive health in patients with rheumatic diseases
Among its many recommendations, the guideline strongly advises that women with RMD considering pregnancy switch to pregnancy‐compatible medication...
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Some relevant financial conflicts go undisclosed in ACR guidelines
More than one-third of industry payments that were directly relevant to guidelines’ recommendations were undisclosed.
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Draft ACR Takayasu’s guidelines: Surgery is the last resort
ATLANTA – One of the goals in soon-to-be-published Takayasu’s arteritis guidelines from the American College of...
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Updated gout guidelines: Don’t let kidney function dictate allopurinol dosing
Inadequate allopurinol dosing has been the bête noire of rheumatology for years.
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AAD-NPF Pediatric psoriasis guideline advises on physical and mental care
Topics in this guideline for pediatric psoriasis include systemic and topical treatments, management of comorbidities, and quality of life.
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EULAR releases recommendations for management of Sjögren’s syndrome
The recommendations are meant to “synthesize current thinking” on the management of the disease but are limited by a lack of high-quality evidence...
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Axial SpA guidelines updated with best practices for new drugs, imaging
Changes to the guidelines largely center on use of interleukin-17 inhibitors, tofacitinib, and biosimilars of tumor necrosis factor–alpha...
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EULAR updates vaccination recommendations for autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic disease patients
EULAR’s updated guidance on vaccinations for patients with AIIRD starts with an annual status assessment.
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First adult APS recommendations released by European society
MADRID – The EULAR recommendations also cover secondary prevention and management of recurrent episodes and catastrophic APS, for which new...
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EULAR keeps csDMARDs as top PsA drugs
EULAR’s revised psoriatic arthritis recommendations retain methotrexate and other csDMARDS as first-line treatment over TNF inhibitors.