RMD Open Podcast

The RMD Open podcast offers the latest insights in musculoskeletal disorders, rheumatism and connective tissue diseases. Each episode features in-depth interviews with authors and leading experts, discussing the latest research and treatments in the field. RMD Open - rmdopen.bmj.com - is an esteemed international journal from the BMJ Group publishing original research on the full spectrum of musculoskeletal disorders, rheumatism and connective tissue diseases, including osteoporosis, spine and rehabilitation. Stay ahead in your field by tuning into our expert discussions and accessing cutting-edge content.

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Episodes

Tuesday Mar 13, 2018

Editor-in-Chief of RMD Open Bernard Combe is joined by Theodore Pincus, Rheumatologist at the Rush University, Chicago, to discuss how new screening tools such as the MDHAQ (Multidimensional Health Assessment Questionnaire) are improving diagnosis in rheumatology.
To read more about these topics, visit the RMD Open website:
MDHAQ/RAPID3 scores in patients with osteoarthritis are similar to or higher than in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a cross-sectional study from current routine rheumatology care at four sites - http://rmdopen.bmj.com/content/3/1/e000391
Responsiveness of a simple RAPID-3-like index compared to disease-specific BASDAI and ASDAS indices in patients with axial spondyloarthritis - http://rmdopen.bmj.com/content/2/2/e000235
Improving inflammatory arthritis management through tighter monitoring of patients and the use of innovative electronic tools - http://rmdopen.bmj.com/content/2/2/e000302
Systematic review of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) for assessing disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis - http://rmdopen.bmj.com/content/2/2/e000202.

Thursday Jan 25, 2018

Professor Xavier Mariette (Head of Rheumatology at Université Paris-Sud, France) is an expert in Sjögren's syndrome. He tells Editor-in-Chief of RMD Open Bernard Combe what is known so far about a relatively unstudied autoimmune disease characterised by dryness of the mouth and eyes which is closely linked to rheumatoid arthritis and lupus.
Read more about this subject on the RMD Open website:
• “Epidemiology of neurological manifestations in Sjögren's syndrome: data from the French ASSESS Cohort” -http://rmdopen.bmj.com/content/2/1/e000179;
• “SIGLEC1 is a biomarker of disease activity and indicates extraglandular manifestation in primary Sjögren's syndrome” - http://rmdopen.bmj.com/content/2/2/e000292;
• “Patient burden of Sjögren’s: a comprehensive literature review revealing the range and heterogeneity of measures used in assessments of severity” - http://rmdopen.bmj.com/content/3/2/e000443.

Wednesday Dec 06, 2017

Cassandra Calabrese (Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio, USA) speaks with Editor-in-Chief of RMD Open Bernard Combe about checkpoint inhibitors.
For more information, please visit the RMD Open website, where the related article to this podcast can also be found:
Rheumatic immune-related adverse events of checkpoint therapy for cancer: case series of a new nosological entity: http://rmdopen.bmj.com/content/3/1/e000412.

Monday Nov 06, 2017

Professor Jonathan Kay (Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School and UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA) tells Editor-in-Chief of RMD Open Bernard Combe why he supports the switch from branded drugs to their cheaper biosimilar.
They spoke at the EULAR conference 2017, held in Madrid, in June.
For more information on this topic read:
• Key design considerations on comparative clinical efficacy studies for biosimilars: adalimumab as an example - http://rmdopen.bmj.com/content/2/1/e000154
• Biosimilars: what do patients need to consider? - http://rmdopen.bmj.com/content/1/1/e000141
• Biosimilars in rheumatology: what the clinician should know - http://rmdopen.bmj.com/content/1/1/e000010
• Switching from originator biological agents to biosimilars: what is the evidence and what are the issues? - http://rmdopen.bmj.com/content/3/2/e000492.

Monday Jul 17, 2017

Dr Joao Fonseca, head of the Rheumatology Department at the Lisbon Academic Medical Centre (Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa), tells Editor in Chief of RMD Open Bernard Combe how the data from the reuma.pt database is improving the early diagnosis and treatment of arthritis in Portugal.
The Rheumatic Diseases Portuguese Register (Reuma.pt) was started by the Portuguese Society of Rheumatology in 2008 with the aim to register patients suffering from all the different inflammatory joint diseases.
http://rmdopen.bmj.com/

Friday May 05, 2017

Interleukin-17 (IL-17A) is a cytokine critical for the acute defence against extracellular bacterial and fungal infections. Excess production during chronic inflammation has been associated with many inflammatory and autoimmune disorders.
In this podcast, the Editor-in-Chief of RMD Open Bernard Combe and Pierre Miossec (Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Lyon, France) discuss a review paper about an update on IL-17A.
The review concludes that the use of IL-17 inhibition in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is easy to understand because of the role of IL-17 in bone destruction. However, the use of the same inhibitors for the treatment of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) implies another understanding. In fact, IL-17 specifically in combination with TNF, induces bone matrix formation by isolated osteoblasts. This is the case at the site of ligaments insertion, where osteoclasts are absent. Local bone formation leads to syndesmophytes.
Professor Miossec also explains how these findings might impact clinical practice.
For more details about this article, visit the RMD Open website: http://rmdopen.bmj.com/content/3/1/e000284.

Welcome to RMD Open

Wednesday Feb 04, 2015

Wednesday Feb 04, 2015

BMJ and EULAR are launching a new rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases journal, RMD Open, and Editor-in-Chief Bernard Combe explains what readers and authors can look forward to.
http://rmdopen.bmj.com/

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