Nov 3rd, 2020 - After promising 18-month outcomes in patients with proliferative lupus nephritis, obinutuzumab showed sustained benefits through 2 years of treatment for patients burdened with the rheumatic disease.

Nov 2nd, 2020 - As interleukin receptor (IL) inhibitors, the monoclonal antibody drug class has come to revolutionize fields of inflammatory disease care, though the utility and resourcing of such promising agents is yet to be fully refined. Namely, clinicians can stand to benefit from more biomarkers, more indications by which monoclonal antibodies are most impactful.

Sep 6th, 2020 - Please refer to the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) below for more information on the all-virtual ACR Convergence 2020. We will share more details as they become available in the coming weeks and months.

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ACR Convergence, the American College of Rheumatology’s 2020 annual meeting will be in Washington, D.C. November 6 - 11.

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Accepted abstracts are made available to the public online in advance of the meeting and are published in a special online supplement of our scientific journal, Arthritis & Rheumatology. However, the ACR continues to require that information that goes beyond that contained in the abstract (e.g., discussion of the abstract done as part a scientific presentation or presentation of additional new ...

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The program has hundreds of sessions to educate professionals in every segment of rheumatology.

The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and the Association of Rheumatology Professionals(ARP) invite you to submit a case-based image and take advantage of the opportunity to have your work peer-reviewed by experts in the field. If accepted, your image will be digitally displayed in the distinguished international venue of ACR Convergence 2020 and be added to the ACR Rheumatology Image Libr...

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Nov 11th, 2020 - In 2020, terms like unconscious bias, diversity and inclusivity are buzzwords in rheumatology as well as throughout American society. The COVID-19 pandemic revealed stark disparities in healthcare outcomes for rheumatic disease patients of racial and ethnic minorities, including new research that shows Black and Latinx patients have a higher risk of hospitalization and threefold increased odds ...

Nov 11th, 2020 - Although patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are increasingly being used to understand treatment effectiveness, there is still a lot unknown about what measures patients find most important. Two abstracts presented at the American College of Rheumatology’s annual meeting evaluated PROs in rheumatology and how PRO measures can be used in clinical care.

Nov 10th, 2020 - A scientific session on Sunday, Nov. 8, focused on vaccine prospects in COVID-19. Dan Barouch, MD, PhD, director of the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the William Bosworth Castle Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, shared his insights about vaccine development across the field, reported on data concerning his lab’s con...

Nov 10th, 2020 - At the ACR’s fully virtual annual meeting on Saturday, Nov. 7, ACR President Ellen M. Gravallese, MD, chief of the Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation and Immunity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, presented the inaugural ACR Distinguished Global Public Health Award to Anthony S. Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), an ACR Master an...

Nov 8th, 2020 - Antimalarial drug shortages due to COVID-19 affected more rheumatology patients in African and East Asian regions than those in the Americas and Europe, noted data from the COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance Patient Experience Survey.

Nov 8th, 2020 - Among patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D), sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors dapagliflozin and empagliflozin vs canagliflozin show greater benefit in reducing gout, according to research results presented at the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Convergence 2020, held virtually from November 5 to 9, 2020.