Sentences with phrase «rheumatologist at»

In the article, Sharon Kolasinski, MD, professor of clinical medicine and a rheumatologist at the University of Pennsylvania states:

is the billion - dollar question: «We think, based on animal research, that sex hormones like estrogen are responsible,» says Abby Abelson, MD, a rheumatologist at the Cleveland Clinic.

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.

Mary Crow, an immunologist and rheumatologist at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, accepts the results.

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.

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.

«More research is needed to confirm why heart disease deaths among rheumatoid arthritis patients have declined, but potential factors include earlier and more vigilant screening for heart problems, improved treatment for heart disease and rheumatoid arthritis, and in general, more attention to heart health in patients with rheumatoid arthritis,» says lead author Elena Myasoedova, M.D., Ph.D., a rheumatologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn..

«Investigating these pathways may identify other targets for therapy or other markers that predict treatment response,» says first author Theresa Wampler Muskardin, M.D., a rheumatologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. «It will help rheumatologists find the right drug for each patient and spare patients medications that won't work for them.»

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 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.

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.

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.

The study, funded in part by a $ 500,000 grant from the Florida Legislative, was a collaboration between Saleh Naser, UCF infectious disease specialist, Dr. Shazia Bég, rheumatologist at UCF's physician practice, and Robert Sharp, a biomedical sciences doctoral candidate at the medical school.

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.

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.

Rheumatologists at the University of Verona, Italy discovered that L - carnitine improved the mood and lessened muscular pain in fibromyalgia patients during a clinical study conducted in 2007.

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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.

, 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.

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.

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.

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.

An international research team headed by the rheumatologist Dr Andreas Ramming at Friedrich - Alexander - Universität Erlangen - Nürnberg (FAU) has now managed to identify an immune system cell type that can be used in a targeted attempt to control the inflammatory response in arthritis patients.

It is aimed at rheumatologists and clinical nurse specialists in lupus, as well as nephrologists, immunologists, dermatologists, emergency medicine practitioners and GPs.

«There are completely new factors that are considered,» says co-author Sherine Gabriel, M.D., a rheumatologist and epidemiologist at Mayo in Rochester.

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.

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.

«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.

Since 70 % of people with fibromyalgia are on more than one medication, drug interactions are an important consideration, says Andrew J Holman MD, clinical rheumatologist and associate clinical professor of medicine at the University of Washington.

(ISTOCKPHOTO) James McKoy, MD, a Honolulu - based rheumatologist and the chief of the pain service division at Kaiser Permanente in Hawaii, gives a lecture called «I Have Arthritis but I'm Still Sexy.»

«Opioids are not as safe as people had hoped,» says the lead author of the study, Daniel H. Solomon, MD, a rheumatologist and epidemiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston.

Clinics that offer a broader, team - based approach to treating psoriasis are also beginning to emerge, says dermatologist Andrew Blauvelt, MD, a professor at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland and the research director of the universitys Center of Excellence for Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis, which combines the efforts of dermatologists, rheumatologists, and psychiatrists.

He taught me a lot about evolutionary medicine and nutrition in general, opened many doors and introduced me (directly and indirectly) to various players in this field, such as Dr. Boyd Eaton (one of the fathers of evolutionary nutrition), Maelán Fontes from Spain (a current research colleague and close friend), Alejandro Lucia (a Professor and a top researcher in exercise physiology from Spain, with whom I am collaborating), Ben Balzer from Australia (a physician and one of the best minds in evolutionary medicine), Robb Wolf from the US (a biochemist and the best «biohackers I know»), Óscar Picazo and Fernando Mata from Spain (close friends who are working with me at NutriScience), David Furman from Argentina (a top immunologist and expert in chronic inflammation working at Stanford University, with whom I am collaborating), Stephan Guyenet from the US (one of my main references in the obesity field), Lynda Frassetto and Anthony Sebastian (both nephrologists at the University of California San Francisco and experts in acid - base balance), Michael Crawford from the UK (a world renowned expert in DHA and Director of the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition, at the Imperial College London), Marcelo Rogero (a great researcher and Professor of Nutrigenomics at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Sérgio Veloso (a cell biologist from Portugal currently working with me, who has one of the best health blogs I know), Filomena Trindade (a Portuguese physician based in the US who is an expert in functional medicine), Remko Kuipers and Martine Luxwolda (both physicians from the Netherlands, who conducted field research on traditional populations in Tanzania), Gabriel de Carvalho (a pharmacist and renowned nutritionist from Brazil), Alex Vasquez (a physician from the US, who is an expert in functional medicine and Rheumatology), Bodo Melnik (a Professor of Dermatology and expert in Molecular Biology from Germany, with whom I have published papers on milk and mTOR signaling), Johan Frostegård from Sweden (a rheumatologist and Professor at Karolinska Institutet, who has been a pioneer on establishing the role of the immune system in cardiovascular disease), Frits Muskiet (a biochemist and Professor of Pathophysiology from the Netherlands, who, thanks to his incredible encyclopedic knowledge and open - mind, continuously teaches me more than I could imagine and who I consider a mentor), and the Swedish researchers Staffan Lindeberg, Tommy Jönsson and Yvonne Granfeldt, who became close friends and mentors.

«Now rheumatologists are more aggressive at treating the diseases — because we can be,» he says.

[pagebreak] Nortin Hadler, MD, a rheumatologist and professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says he doesn't recommend the procedure to as many patients as he once did.

My rheumatologist says I have to walk at least 5 days a week... work doesn't count!

I found out at my rheumatologist appointment today that MY total cholesterol is also high at 245.

Having often obtained an orthopaedic report to rule out there being an organic explanation for the pain, the claims handler then has to second guess whether to instruct a rheumatologist (best suited to fibromyalgia and CRPS claims), a psychiatrist (more appropriate to the psycho - social conditions) or a pain specialist (general able to comment across the piste but sometimes felt to focus too heavily on treatment, at the cost of causation for example).