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 ...

India's first heart failure registry reveals younger patients, high mortality rates, and varying causes of heart failure.

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.

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 ...

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

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