Category: Rheumatology
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Gout in Humans and Animals
Here’s an interesting post by a relatively new rheumatologist-blogger. Apparently diclofenac, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) also known as Voltaren – of the same class as ibuprofen, A.K.A. Motrin and Advil – is toxic in birds. How do birds ingest it? Well obviously they feed on dead cows! Vulture populations crashed in the nineties and…
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Gout in Humans and Animals
Here’s an interesting post by a relatively new rheumatologist-blogger. Apparently diclofenac, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) also known as Voltaren – of the same class as ibuprofen, A.K.A. Motrin and Advil – is toxic in birds. How do birds ingest it? Well obviously they feed on dead cows! Vulture populations crashed in the nineties and…
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Dec A&R Roundup – Kind Of
I’m forgoing the A&R Roundup this month. I went through the Dec. issue last weekend, and you know, nothing caught my eye. How many hundred pages, but not one article that grabbed my attention. There were three articles that I flagged for my own reading, and maybe to review, but more because I feel like…
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Nov A&R Roundup
I have to admit that I don’t do these summaries of Arthritis & Rheumatism just for my readers. It’s also a way of forcing myself to at least glance through the journal every month and see what’s going on in the arthritis research world. I’m more likely to do it and remember it if I…
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Treatment Options for Osteoarthritis
I was browsing Technorati, since I try to keep in touch with arthritis postings this way, and ran across the following: There is nothing we can do …. I don’t know if i should laugh or cry ……. getting straight to the point, i have fully blown Osteo-arthritis, the Orthapeadic Surgeon said i have the…
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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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