Painful monthly penicillin injections could be a thing of the past with Griffith University researchers, in collaboration ...

Indigenous children and young adults are dying from rheumatic heart disease due to "culturally unsafe" and inaccessible ...

Nearly 40% of pregnancy-capable patients with rheumatic disease are unaware of the potential impacts of their medications on ...

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 ...

Culturally safe health care is key to tackling rheumatic heart disease in Australia, with researchers saying Aboriginal and ...

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

Background: There are insufficient data regarding how to deal with moderate aortic valve (AV) dysfunction during rheumatic mitral valve (MV) surgery. In this study, the clinical outcomes of patients ...

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

Lupus can do irreversible harm to a person's organs, damaging the lungs, kidneys, heart, liver and other vital organs through ...

The following is a summary of “Development of START, a novel multimedia-based symptom appraisal tool for autoimmune rheumatic disease,” published in the January 2025 issue of Rheumatology by Xiang et ...