Sentences with phrase «of rheumatologists»

Women make up 55 % of all medical graduates, 57 % of all doctors under 30, 59 % of endocrinologists, 58 % of pathologists, 53 % of paediatricians, 50 % of rheumatologists, 49 % of obstetricians and 43 % of GPs.

In a 2003 survey, 83 % of hand surgeons said that knuckle replacement «always» or «usually» improves hand function, compared with just 34 % of rheumatologists.

The staple argument of rheumatologists for using the toxic drugs is to stop inflamation to prevent deterioration of cartilage and deformity of joints.

In the first such collaboration of its kind, an expert panel of rheumatologists and orthopedic surgeons has developed guidelines for the perioperative management of anti-rheumatic medication in patients undergoing total hip or knee replacement.

I am also under the care of a Rheumatologist and she monitors my blood work and joint function.

«With the help of his rheumatologist dad and researchers from New York University, the fifth - grader handed out questionnaires to 171 of his schoolmates aged 7 to 12 years.»

Not exact matches

I had an appointment with my rheumatologist the other day and both of us were shocked at the amount of weight I've gained over the last six months.

Since that time, I have birthed, and safely breastfed three children while receiving compatible medication and using topical corticosteroids under the supervision of my dermatologist and rheumatologist, my obstetrician, and children's pediatrician.

, a pediatric rheumatologist, joined the Department of Pediatrics at Albany Medical Center and was also appointed associate professor of pediatrics at Albany Medical College.

In outward appearance, however, he is your average rheumatologist, with one practice at the Arthritis Center in Lawrence, Kansas, and another at the Arthritis Center of Northeast Ohio, in Youngstown.

«There are authentic dietary supplements — multivitamins, calcium, iron — which do supplement the diet» and can help many people, says rheumatologist and immuno - logist Donald Marcus of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, an early critic of the supplement industry.

The Epstein - Barr virus, which infects some 90 % of Americans, may cause changes in gene expression that dramatically increase a person's chance of getting lupus and six other autoimmune disorders, a new study by Harley, now a rheumatologist at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Ohio, and colleagues shows.

In 1978, rheumatologist Jon Levine and neurologist Howard Fields, both at the University of California, San Francisco, did a simple experiment with people in pain after dental surgery.

Taken together, the results suggest that people with rheumatoid arthritis may soon have new options for treatment, says Gary Firestein, a rheumatologist at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine.

But the role of pyrophosphate in osteoarthritis, a much more common ailment, is unclear, says rheumatologist Michael Doherty of the City Hospital in Nottingham, United Kingdom.

Initial results were discouraging: attempts to simply replace the protein therapies with small - molecule drugs that hit the same targets largely failed, says Saeed Fatenejad, a rheumatologist at Pfizer who is responsible for clinical development of tasocitinib.

Faced with an increasing choice of different biologic therapies, rheumatologists have a critical need for better tools to inform their management of RA.

Many rheumatologists, for example, now prescribe long - term — even lifelong — courses of antibiotics for inflammatory arthritis, even though it isn't known if the antibiotics actually clear away bacteria or reduce inflammatory arthritis in some other unknown manner.

A Robert Wood Johnson Medical School rheumatologist and a clinical psychologist at the University of Michigan's Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center reviewed the impact back pain had on the life and death of the 35th president.

«The work is paradigm - shifting in the way we think about genetic susceptibility and the interaction between genetic risk and the environment,» says Amr Sawalha, a geneticist and rheumatologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor who was not involved in the study.

Whilst established to examine possible safety issues with biologic therapies, it provides the opportunity to look at additional benefits beyond the direct effect on disease severity,» explains William Dixon, MD, MRC clinician scientist / senior clinical lecturer and honorary consultant rheumatologist; Arthritis Research UK Epidemiology Unit, The University of Manchester; and an investigator in the study.

«Rheumatologists can be reassured that treatment of active rheumatoid arthritis with anti-TNF therapy may lead not just to an improvement in joint symptoms, but also a reduction in the rate of myocardial infarctions in the medium term,» says Dr. Dixon

So a team led by autoimmunity researcher and rheumatologist J. Lee Nelson of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington, took samples from autopsied brains of 59 women who died between the ages of 32 and 101.

«While America's rheumatologists support the development of new biosimilar therapies, the safety of our patients remains our highest priority.

The ORBIT data «showed that patients who have seropositive rheumatoid arthritis are just as likely to respond to rituximab therapy when compared to anti-TNF therapy,» said Duncan Porter, MD, Honorary Associate Professor and a consultant rheumatologist at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland, and one of the lead authors of the study.

The study entitled «Feasibility of photoacoustic / ultrasound imaging of synovitis in finger joints using a point - of - care system» was conducted and published by Pim van den Berg, Khalid Daoudi and Wiendelt Steenbergen from the University of Twente research institute MIRA in cooperation with rheumatologist Hein Moens of Ziekenhuis group Twente.

«Local therapy could be a viable treatment option for patients with only one or a few inflamed joints, said co-corresponding author Joerg Ermann, MD, a rheumatologist in the BWH Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy.

Regular follow up with your rheumatologist for diagnosis and management of Lupus is vital to make early diagnosis and avoid long - term damage.

New technology helped the researchers identify a type of E. coli bacteria found in people with Crohn's disease that can trigger inflammation associated with spondyloarthritis, according to the study led by principal investigator Dr. Randy Longman and scientists from the Jill Roberts Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease at NewYork - Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine and the Jill Roberts Institute for Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease at Weill Cornell Medicine, microbiologists at Cornell University and rheumatologists at Hospital for Special Surgery.

«I think it's important for patients with rheumatoid arthritis to understand that their disease alone carries added risk of heart disease and discuss that with their rheumatologist and perhaps suggest that their rheumatologist work with a cardiologist or a preventive cardiology clinic to come up with a plan to reduce cardiovascular risk,» Dr. Gabriel says.

As part of that effort, rheumatologists and cardiologists established Mayo's Cardio - Rheumatology Clinic two years ago to pioneer new heart disease diagnostic, prevention and treatment tools for patients with rheumatoid arthritis and other rheumatic diseases.

Her current duties as a research assistant to pediatric rheumatologist James Jarvis include finding possible genetic and / or environmental causation to the severity of rheumatic diseases in Native American communities.

When they heard about the rise in narcolepsy in 2010, neuroscientist Lawrence Steinman of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and rheumatologist Sohail Ahmed, who at the time was global head of clinical sciences at Novartis's vaccines and diagnostics division in Siena, Italy, began scouring databases for proteins expressed in the brain that might resemble those in the vaccine.

The results of the study, for which MedUni Vienna rheumatologist Josef Smolen was senior author, have now been published in top medical journal The Lancet.

A multicentre, multinational study headed up by rheumatologist Daniel Aletaha of MedUni Vienna as principal investigator has now shown that a new drug (sirukumab) is a very promising treatment option for these «refractory» patients.

That they were not malignant is clear from the bone's structure, says Rothschild, who is also a rheumatologist at the Arthritis Center of Northeast Ohio.

«Rheumatologists should work hard to encourage their AS patients to quit smoking as this could have a major impact on future quality of life,» he added.

But the work doesn't convince rheumatologist Lars Rönnblom of Uppsala University in Sweden.

Manual Martinez - Lavin, a rheumatologist at the National Institute of Cardiology in Mexico City, Mexico, agrees that the finding could offer insight about the cause of other forms of clubbing.

Laurence Rubin, Identitas CEO and a practicing rheumatologist at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, says that his company is now shifting gears from demonstrating the utility of SNP - based microarrays for analyzing forensic samples to into more of an advocacy role, introducing law enforcement agencies to the power of these genomic technologies.

In my department there are a high number of patients with hand and upper limb problems referred to the rehabilitation from orthopaedic surgeons, plastic surgeons, rheumatologists, neurologists and hand surgeons.

Allen Steere, an MGH rheumatologist and the researcher who led the team that first identified Lyme disease in the 1970s, is exploring the question of why some people don't get well after treatment.

«Many rheumatologists think that the autoantibodies are an epiphenomenon — an interesting phenomenon but not directly related to the cause of lupus,» said Wolin.

Maini's work as a rheumatologist has made dramatic improvement in the quality of life of sufferers of rheumatoid arthritis through the development of the biological therapy, anti-TNF.

No, I learned that gout — a form of inflammatory arthritis brought on by a build - up of uric acid crystals in the joints — is an increasingly common diagnosis: 8 - 12 million Americans have it, according to rheumatologist Michael Pillinger, MD, Professor of Medicine, Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at NYU Langone Medical Center.

Your GP can help you pinpoint the exact cause of your pain, and if necessary, he or she might then refer you to a rheumatologist.

«We don't have a good predictor of who's going to respond better to which medication,» says Apostolos Kontzias, MD, staff rheumatologist with the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.

Consulting with a rheumatologist is critical to long - term management of psoriatic arthritis.

But during a six - month spell of all - over aches, pains, and flu - like symptoms, she was sent to a rheumatologist who gave her a diagnosis of fibromyalgia.

«You can learn a lot by looking at the hands,» agrees Kelly Weselman, MD, communications chair for the American College of Rheumatology and a rheumatologist with WellStar Rheumatology in Smyrna, Georgia.