Sentences with phrase «rheumatologist who»

Do you want the top rheumatologist in the country who specializes in psoriatic arthritis, or are you ok with a rheumatologist who treats a variety of conditions?

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.

I was angry the diagnosis took so long I finally found a rheumatologist who was willing to do some tests and conduct a thorough history, as well as talk about my symptoms and what was going on in my life.

She is proud to be one of the few rheumatologists who does not routinely start her patients on biologic and DMARD therapies.

Not exact matches

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

Once a woman becomes pregnant, Buyon said, both her rheumatologist and a maternal - fetal medicine specialist — or obstetrician who specializes in «high - risk» pregnancy — should be involved.

Not all doctors are up to speed with fibromyalgia «We just did some market research, and we found that it depends on who you're talking to: If you're talking to rheumatologists, probably 85 percent understand that fibromyalgia does exist,» says Lynne Matallana, president of the NFA.

But her mom, who also had an autoimmune disorder, became frantic when things got worse and took her see a rheumatologist, who diagnosed her with lupus.

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.

You may see a rheumatologist (who specializes in treating joint, soft tissue, and autoimmune diseases) or an immunologist versed in immune system disorders.

I wondered why my rheumatologist, who seemed so progressive, had not even mentioned this as a possibility.

I finally got referred to a Rheumatologist, who put me on Prednisone.

In a case of Rheumatic Arthritis in a 14 - year - old, Swedish girl who couldn't walk comfortably downstairs due to knee pain since she had been eight - years old, her rheumatologists told her mother that her child would be in a wheelchair within 2 years if she refused gold corticosteroid therapy.

You'll play Karl Fairburn; your typical generic grisly American who's been sent behind enemy lines to shatter bones with unerring accuracy that only a rheumatologist might know about.

You may run into ones that are confusing, such as a rheumatologist, which is a doctor who cares for patients that have arthritis and other conditions.