Rheumatic fever also helped drive the establishment of the AHA in 1924. Dr. Paul Dudley White, one of its co-founders, met his wife, social worker Ina Reid, while the two were researching ...

Rheumatic heart disease is a chronic condition that results years after acute rheumatic fever, which is caused by group A beta-hemolytic Streptococcus pyogenes. This organism produces a ...

Undergraduate medical schools show “significant variation” in rheumatology training, with some students receiving as few as 4 ...

The historical record shows that the battle to prevent and find cures for infectious disease will lead to a lower incidence of chronic, disabling diseases. At the same time, efforts to find ...

ACUTE rheumatic fever, in the absence of intercurrent streptococcal respiratory infections and rheumatic recrudescences, is generally a self-limited disease that subsides within twelve weeks.

Children with rheumatic diseases may face increased risks for COVID-19-related hospitalization, particularly those using glucocorticoids, rituximab, or mycophenolate.

Experts discuss the current research on the use of digital therapeutics for managing chronic pain in rheumatic disease.

A RECENT review of the literature 1 and our own experience at the House of the Good Samaritan 2–5 suggest that early treatment of rheumatic fever with ACTH and cortisone may prevent or mitigate ...