Rheumatic fever also helped drive the establishment of the AHA in 1924. Dr. Paul Dudley White, one of its co-founders, met his wife, social worker Ina Reid, while the two were researching ...

Despite advances, there remain gaps in the understanding of and personalized treatment for chronic pain in rheumatology, especially among women.

Rheumatic heart disease is a chronic condition that results years after acute rheumatic fever, which is caused by group A beta-hemolytic Streptococcus pyogenes. This organism produces a ...

Malignant diseases can also mask rheumatic diseases. Numerous symptoms indicate the possibility of dermatomyositis, where patients experience weaknesses in the proximal shoulder and pelvic muscles ...

Recent developments, however, suggest that strategies to treat pain are starting to match its complexity with a new sophistication. The management of chronic pain in general is now being broadly ...

ACUTE rheumatic fever, in the absence of intercurrent streptococcal respiratory infections and rheumatic recrudescences, is generally a self-limited disease that subsides within twelve weeks.

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Source Reference: Van Slingerland K, et al "The impact of an online, lifestyle intervention program on the lives of patients with a rheumatic and musculoskeletal disease: A pilot study" Rheumatol ...

I first considered pursuing rheumatology because of several inpatient cases that I encountered as a medical resident. The ...

The FDA approved Avtozma, a tocilizumab biosimilar developed by Celltrion, for the treatment of several rheumatic conditions.

A RECENT review of the literature 1 and our own experience at the House of the Good Samaritan 2–5 suggest that early treatment of rheumatic fever with ACTH and cortisone may prevent or mitigate ...

Higher rates of childhood Streptococcus pyogenes (group A Streptococcus (GAS)) infections following the COVID-19 pandemic ...