Category: ACR 2006
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Glucosamine and Chondroitin Sulfate: The Great Debate, Part 4
(Parts 1 and 2. Part 3.) I’m back at last. I have spent the last few days helping to get my mother buried, in our hearts if not in fact, and only now have time to finish up. In this post I’ll address the arguments made by David Felson as to the efficacy of glucosamine…
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A Quick Aside
As you may have noticed, I’ve had to take a couple of breaks presenting this final 2006 ACR session, and have divided it up amongst a few posts over a few days. There are reasons for this. 1) As I expalined earlier, it is a subject that is near and dear to my heart and…
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Glucosamine and Chondroitin Sulfate: The Great Debate, Part 3
Part 3 (See here for parts 1 and 2) Dr. Theodosakis then took the podium to present the case for glucosamine and chondroitin. Let me first say that Dr. T. is a young, charismatic man and appears to be a very nice guy. He is certainly an engaging speaker and certainly believes everything he says.…
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Glucosamine and Chondroitin Sulfate: The Great Debate, Parts 1 and 2
This was the last session I attended and concerns a topic of great interest to me, so I’m glad I was able to attend. I expect that this is going to turn into a long post, because it concerns some issues which are close to my heart and that’s I’d like to explore in a…
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Concurrent Abstracts – Complications of Pharmacotherapy
The abstracts I saw presented today tended to have a common theme: they all looked at the risks of therapy with medications we use frequently. You might think that figuring out whether a medication or group of medications cause, say, cancer would just be a matter of following some people and seeing whether they develop…
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2006 ACR Conference: Day 5 and Heading Home
Well, actually I’m heading to my parents’. I’ll get back home sometime this weekend. But it was my 5th day at the ACR Conference, the 3rd day of the conference proper. I managed to get to two sessions before I had to head to the airport, and they were two good ones. The other thing…
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Concurrent Abstracts – Epidemiology and Health Services
I went to another session that was supposed to help young investigators get a research career established, but I’m not going to talk about it at all. I will talk quickly about the epidemiology abstract session though. Dr. Kwoh confirmed something that has been suspected for a while now; namely that African Americans think differently…
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Plenary Session II
I again hit the plenary session today. I’m only going to talk about one of the abstracts presented, and that’s the last one by Dr. Englund. He looked a knee MRIs in a community population and found that tears or maceration (destruction) of the meniscus – the ‘padding’ of the knee joint, if you will…
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The ACR Year in Review
This is a fun session that reviews highlights of the rheumatology literature over the last year. I won’t go into the clinical stuff because I’m not sure I agree with the selections, but the basic science stuff was interesting. This is a field I’m really not familiar with and therefore I really can’t go into…
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2006 ACR Conference Day 4
Actually, it’s day 2 of the conference proper, but it’s my 4th day. It’s been another busy one. A few general comments, and then I’ll follow my model from yesterday and tell you about a few sessions. So I was told today that we have 12,500 attendees. Not bad, eh? It’s basically a small town-full…
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