June 30, 2025

Can Typos Change a Diagnosis?

Large language models used in clinical decision-making may offer different treatment recommendations depending on how a patient writes their message—even when the medical facts remain unchanged.

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June 24, 2025

Do CBC Ratios Predict RA Mortality?

Elevated SIRI, NLR, and MLR from routine blood counts independently predicted higher all-cause mortality among patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

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June 18, 2025

Does Depression Predict Pain Later?

A long-term study of older adults found that symptoms of depression and loneliness began increasing years before the onset of pain and remained elevated afterward, especially in people with lower income or education levels.

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June 17, 2025

Aconitine Tames Joints, Protects Bone

At EULAR 2025, researchers presented data showing aconitine reduced bone erosion and increased regulatory T cells in a rheumatoid arthritis mouse model.

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June 16, 2025

Updated Guidance on Antirheumatic Drug Use

New 2024 EULAR recommendations offer evidence-based guidance for the use of antirheumatic drugs during pregnancy, lactation, and conception planning in patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases.

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June 12, 2025

Gene Variants Linked to CPPD Risk

A large genetic study in U.S. veterans has identified ENPP1 and RNF144B as genes associated with calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease, suggesting potential for targeted treatment approaches.

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May 28, 2025

Kennedy Proposes NIH Publishing Ban

"We're probably going to stop publishing in The Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and those other journals because they're all corrupt."

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April 21, 2025

Lupus Clusters Show Distinct Disease Patterns

Cluster 2 patients exhibited ‘a more severe form of the disease, marked with frequent serositis and haematological manifestations, renal and neurological involvement,’ and had poorer outcomes over time.

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April 30, 2025

New AI Sensor Diagnoses Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis

A new AI-assisted gold sensor distinguished osteoarthritis from rheumatoid arthritis with 98.1% accuracy by analyzing synovial fluid, offering a fast, noninvasive diagnostic option, researchers report.

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