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Nov 15, 2023 • 3min
ACR 2023 Highlights: Day 4
Join Sofia Ramiro as she goes through our top abstracts, posters, and presentations from Day 4 of ACR 2023 today (Wednesday 15 November).
They're all available right here on the CSF YouTube channel, so make sure you don't miss them!

Nov 14, 2023 • 4min
ACR 2023 Highlights: Day 3
Join Grace Wright as she goes through our top abstracts, posters, and presentations from Day 3 of ACR 2023 today (Tuesday 14 November).
They're all available right here on the CSF YouTube channel, so make sure you don't miss them!

Nov 13, 2023 • 3min
ACR 2023 Highlights: Day 2
Join Laura Coates as she goes through our top abstracts, posters, and presentations from Day 2 of ACR 2023 today (Monday 13 November).
They're all available right here on the CSF YouTube channel, so make sure you don't miss them!

Nov 12, 2023 • 6min
ACR 2023 Highlights: Day 1
Join Iain McInnes as he goes through our top abstracts, posters, and presentations from Day 1 of ACR 2023 today (Sunday 12 November).
They're all available right here on the CSF YouTube channel, so make sure you don't miss them!

Nov 9, 2023 • 9min
ACR 2023 Preview Podcast
Join Dr Sofia Ramiro as she previews our highlights this ACR, introducing some of the top abstracts and posters we’ve chosen so that you can better plan your time at what will be a busy and exciting congress.

Oct 31, 2023 • 21min
Bimekizumab in treating bDMARD-naïve PsA & upadacitinib in treating csDMARD and bDMARD IR PsA
Join Peter Nash, Professor at the School of Medicine, Griffith University, and Director of the Rheumatology Research Unit on the Sunshine Coast, Australia and Laura Coates, an Associate Professor, NIHR clinician scientist and senior clinical research fellow at the Oxford Psoriatic Arthritis Centre, discussing two intriguing aspects of the contemporary PsA treatment landscape. The first of the publications relates to the safety and efficacy of bimekizumab in bDMARD-naïve patients with PsA through 52 weeks and the second is a publication exploring the real-world safety and efficacy of upadacitinib in patients with PsA and an inadequate response to csDMARDs or bDMARDs.

Oct 26, 2023 • 27min
axSpA Podcast: Safety and Efficacy of Upadacitinib
Professor Hideto Kameda, Professor of Internal Medicine at Toho University in Japan, is joined by Professor Xenofon Baraliakos, Professor of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology at the Ruhr-University in Bochum, and a senior consultant and scientific coordinator of the rheumatology centre Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet in Herne, Germany, Dr Sofia Ramiro, consultant rheumatologist and senior researcher at Zuyderland Medical Centre and Leiden University Medical Centre in the Netherlands as well as, Atul Deodhar Professor of Medicine and Medical Director of Rheumatology Clinics in the Division of Arthritis & Rheumatic Diseases at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, USA, to discuss the safety and efficacy of Upadacitinib.
The first paper evaluated the 52-week safety, tolerability, and efficacy of updacitinib in the SELECT-AXIS 2 study in patients with AS and an inadequate response to bDMARDs and the second paper then goes on to describe, via a narrative review, the safety and efficacy of updacitinib in axSpA

Oct 26, 2023 • 39min
CSF Author Interview: Dr. David Martin, 2023
Join Professor Peter Nash from the Griffith University in Brisbane, and Dr. David Martin, executive medical director at Pfizer in Massachusetts, USA as they discuss his recent paper 'Biomarkers to predict risk of venous thromboembolism in patients with rheumatoid arthritis receiving tofacitinib or tumour necrosis factor inhibitors'
Detailed summary slides of this paper and many more publications, are free to view and download in the publications section at cytokinesignalling.com.

Oct 20, 2023 • 11min
Discussing Rheumatology: October 2023
Join Professor Iain McInnes in this month's CSF Podcast, where he discusses the latest information and data in rheumatology.
In this episode, he discusses two papers that look at the epidemiology of autoimmune diseases. The first paper, the GBD 2021 Rheumatoid Arthritis Collaborators systematically reviewed the global RA burden, and used these data to predict prevalence up to 2050 and the second paper, Nathalie Conrad and her colleagues reported the incidence and prevalence of 19 different autoimmune disorders in the United Kingdom, while also stratifying by age, sex, and socioeconomic status.
To access detailed summary slides for the papers discussed today, visit cytokinesignalling.com.

Oct 16, 2023 • 35min
EULAR Recommendations Podcast 2023 with Professor Peter Nash & Dr. Andreas Kerschbaumer
Join Professor Peter Nash from Griffith University and Dr. Andreas Kerschbaumer from Medical University of Vienna as they discuss the updated EULAR recommendations for managing psoriatic arthritis. Topics include systematic literature reviews, challenges in safety questions, impact on medical practice, comparison of AC algorithm and grapple recommendations, and updates to treatment recommendations.