The burden of gout is increasing worldwide. Although urate-lower ing drugs have been available for more than half a century, the initiation and persistence of urate-lowering therapy remain low. Health-care system, practitioner, and patient barriers contribute to the clinical inertia in gout management. Pervasive beliefs about gout as a disease of an indulgent lifestyle that should be managed…
The first inhabitants of Australia and the traditional owners of Australian lands are the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander…
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Paediatric rheumatology research is not doing enough to serve patients and paediatric trial designs are unacceptable for children and families. This is the critical view…
Overdiagnosis occurs when patients are diagnosed with a disease that would otherwise never have affected the quality or duration of their lives. This often happens…
To celebrate 5 years of The Lancet Rheumatology, international advisory board members Oliver Distler, Laura Coates, and David Liew discuss recent progress made, challenges to…
The transformative capacity of cells as therapeutics has revolutionised malignancy treatments.1 Cellular engineering advances have expanded opportunities to discover new applications for these targeted therapies.2…
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These nationwide data on the epidemiology of childhood-onset SLE in the Chinese paediatric population show for the first time a declining trend in incidence rates,…
Sjögren’s disease is a clinically and pathophysiologically heterogeneous disease to which precision medicine, on the basis of clinical and biological heterogeneity, has been not always…
Susac syndrome is a rare inflammatory vascular endotheliopathy affecting the small vessels of the brain, eye, and ear.1,2 Typically, it is the combination of encephalopathy,…
