What will the next decade of RA treatment bring? Iain McInnes, a professor of experimental medicine at the University of Glasgow, has some answers.

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It's difficult to know when to start tapering off high-dose steroids for patients with takayasu arteritis, but novel biomarkers discovered in India could help guide the decision.
Professor Debashish Danda, a rheumatologist at Christian Medical College Vellore in India, spoke about his research with Rheumatology Republic reporter Felicity Nelson at APLAR-ARA 2019 in Brisbane.

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Rheumatologist Dr Helen Benham has been running a "hub and spoke" telehealth model of care for 200 patients annually at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane.
The telehealth patients still have to see their rheumatologists once a year face-to-face, and Dr Benham "universally get groans" from patients at that time of the year.
"It really demonstrates, as the research did, that patients generally do prefer telehealth for lots of different reasons," she says in conversation with Rheumatology Republic reporter Felicity Nelson.

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Victorian rheumatologist Peter Ryan has been offering telehealth for years using "simple Skype".
"Teleheath is something I can't live without," he says. "I started telehealth 16 years ago with the help of Medicare and various medical indemnity societies. Now, I could not practice without it. I could not deliver what I do to country patients in a way that they've come to love."
Speaking with Rheumatology Republic reporter Felicity Nelson at APLAR this week, Associate Professor Ryan shared his experiences in telerheumatology in Victoria.

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"If people learn why they hurt, they hurt less."
Rheumatology Republic reporter Felicity Nelson caught up with Professor Lorimer Moseley at APLAR in Brisbane this week to chat about how educating patients about pain science can actually reduce their pain levels in the long term.

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