Sentences with phrase «rheumatologists for»

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

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

So, I was referred to a Rheumatologist for further testing for RA, Lupus.

When someone is you know, seeing a rheumatologist for 20 years on lots of expensive medication that's tearing up their gut and their body and creating more symptoms than they're actually helping.

Fibromyalgia is a common condition for those suffering injury, and previously required referral to a Rheumatologist for diagnosis and treatment.

Not exact matches

I hope the rheumatologist can offer some information for you.

«T - cells were in fashion for a long time,» says retired rheumatologist and researcher Jonathan Edwards.

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.

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.

«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.»

«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.

«In future it may be beneficial for rheumatologists to provide GPs with specific advice about appropriate vaccination for individual patients, or to consider administering the vaccinations themselves in their own clinics — either way, both approaches should be adequately funded.»

«Patients with RA have a doubled or so risk for acute coronary syndrome, and cardiovascular prevention is thus a major task for rheumatologists.»

«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..

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.

«Our study shows that extremely obese people seeking relief from their knee pain should consider lap - band surgery earlier because the benefits from it being successful — although significant for all ages — decrease with age,» says study senior investigator and rheumatologist Jonathan Samuels, MD..

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.

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.

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.

«The recommendations are intended for use by clinicians, including orthopedists, rheumatologists, and other physicians performing risk assessment and evaluation, as well as by patients,» Dr. Goodman noted.

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

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.

Facebook groups can also be a good resource for tracking down rheumatologists.

My rheumatologist prescribed medication for the rheumatoid arthritis, but not for the pain it causes.

«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.

Jackson obliged to an herbal regimen and agreed to travel to L.A. for an in - person visit with a rheumatologist in L.A. and her holistic doctor's husband.

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.

now a rheumatologist tested me for Sjogren's and other AI diseases which came back negative but he did an ultrasound and found a suspicious growth in my uterus and a thickening of the lining of the uterus.

I also believe I have a gluten sensitivity and tested «negative» by my rheumatologist but only for «celiac disease» which I have read in your books that it is not sensitive to pickup on everything.

To receive the highest standard of specialized care for your joints and connective tissues, people with psoriatic arthritis should consider seeing a rheumatologist.

Before starting a yoga regimen, speak to your rheumatologist or primary - care physician to ensure that yoga is right for you.

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).

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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.