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TNF inhibitors may dampen COVID-19 severity
May 19, 2020
New findings from the COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance Registry.
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Advice on treating rheumatic diseases from a COVID-19 epicenter
May 13, 2020
Hospital for Special Surgery rheumatologists discuss their approach to caring for patients with rheumatic diseases within their practice during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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ACR gives guidance on rheumatic disease management during pandemic
May 12, 2020
When COVID-19 is suspected, rheumatic disease patients may continue their hydroxychloroquine but other rheumatic disease treatments may need to be stopped or held.
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Case series suggests biologics, JAK inhibitors safe during pandemic
May 1, 2020
Investigators saw no increase in hospitalizations versus the general population in New York City.
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Hospitals update hydroxychloroquine protocols after FDA warning
April 29, 2020
Some hospitals changed their use of hydroxychloroquine for patients with COVID-19 long before the FDA’s recent warning about the drug’s risks.
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Latest data on COVID-19 patients with rheumatic diseases revealed in registry
April 23, 2020
Data for a total of 583 COVID-19 patients have now been made available.
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Rheumatologists seek to reassure amid hydroxychloroquine shortage
March 26, 2020
Rheumatologists Jill P. Buyon and Peter M. Izmirly answer questions about the availability of hydroxychloroquine during the COVID-19 pandemic, and rheumatologist Michael H. Pillinger discusses the prospects for a new trial of the gout drug colchicine in COVID-19 patients.
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Amid hydroxychloroquine hopes, lupus patients face shortages
March 23, 2020
Pharmacists are reporting depleted stocks of the drug, leaving many of the roughly 1.5 million lupus patients across the country unable to get their prescriptions filled. They now face an uncertain future as the public clings to one of the first signs of hope to appear since the coronavirus began sweeping across the U.S.
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Fever, intestinal symptoms may delay diagnosis of Kawasaki disease in children
October 31, 2018
Consider Kawasaki disease in children who present with unexplained high fever and abdominal pain.
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Few acutely ill hospitalized patients receive VTE prophylaxis
April 2, 2018
The results “imply that there is a significantly unmet need for effective VTE prophylaxis in both the inpatient and outpatient continuum of care.”