Tag: rheumatology

Charting a Course for Personalized Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment

December 9, 2019 / Greg Ramirez / 0 Comments

Best Scissors for Arthritis, plus Scissor Life Hacks

December 7, 2019 / Greg Ramirez / 0 Comments

Karen Hansen, MD, UW Health Rheumatology and Arthritis

December 6, 2019 / Greg Ramirez / 0 Comments

>>I first started working only in the rheumatology clinic seeing patients with rheumatic diseases, but then I was invited to participate in the specialty osteoporosis clinic within the endocrine division. And our specialty osteoporosis clinic offers consultation to patients who have complex cases of osteoporosis and who then can be cared for by a rheumatologist, …

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Jon Arnason, MD, UW Health Rheumatology and Arthritis

December 6, 2019 / Greg Ramirez / 0 Comments

>>There’s usually more than one option, and it’s always going to be a mutual decision. I lay out what the options are, discuss the pros and cons because there are always pros and cons. Each treatment usually has at least potential side effects. And you need to take people’s other medical problems into consideration. All …

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Tiffany Lin, MD, UW Health Rheumatology and Arthritis

December 5, 2019 / Greg Ramirez / 0 Comments

>>It is really a rewarding chance to be able to use the expertise that you carried throughout the years and be able to apply it to a patient you’re seeing in front of you. A lot of times our patients come after seeing multiple different physicians, a lot of times in many different specialties, looking …

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DeBoRA: Dopamine and Bone Metabolism in Rheumatoid Arthritis

November 30, 2019 / Greg Ramirez / 0 Comments

This is Jenny. Jenny has rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis is a painful disease. By the time further joints are affected and deformed. Additionally, RA makes your bones weaker. This is because RA increases the risk to get osteoporosis – a condition that makes bones not as dense and strong as they should be. Jenny’s doctor …

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Family Planning, Pregnancy, and Parenting with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Claire’s Story (Part 1)

November 30, 2019 / Greg Ramirez / 0 Comments

You know, you have a small daughter who’s 17 months old and What were your experiences having rheumatoid arthritis and, you know, family planning, Pregnancy…yeah. Yeah, it was a really long journey that actually formally started with, and I’m gonna do my little plug here, with this lovely book by Suze Edward Mays. She’s an …

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The Aberdeen Centre for Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Health

November 29, 2019 / Greg Ramirez / 0 Comments

Behind the Aberdeen Centre for Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Health is a large team of people who work collaboratively and with purpose. Be it through world leading research or high quality patient care, improving the lives of those living with arthritis and musculoskeletal conditions is at the heart of all we do. Scientists in the Centre …

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Expert commentary: Safety and efficacy of tofacitinib in JIA | Sangeeta Sule

November 28, 2019 / Greg Ramirez / 0 Comments

[MUSIC PLAYING] So I think this is a great study and very exciting for pediatric rheumatologists. What they did is they basically, took kids for 18 weeks first and gave them a phase I run-in, where every child was treated with the medicine tofacitinib. These are kids with polyarticular juvenile arthritis, enthesitis-related arthritis, and psoriatic …

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“Arthritis in hands” | “आर्थराइटिस – क्या खाये और परहेज” | (In Hindi)

November 28, 2019 / Greg Ramirez / 5 Comments