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The Division of Rheumatology is a thriving clinical and academic center, which concentrates clinically on providing the most outstanding care to patients affected by a variety of common and uncommon rheumatic disorders.

Poor Sleep Quality Shown for Lyme Disease Patients

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This is the first study to examine and quantify sleep quality in the context of well-defined early Lyme disease (LD) and post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS). The findings provide support that sleep disturbance should be considered in the clinical picture of individuals with LD. Sleep quality may particularly be poor and associated with the pain experience for individuals with PTLDS. Future research will need to validate and expand upon these findings to investigate sleep quality in individuals exposed to LD who are not well-defined and/or ideally treated.

LEAP – Winter 2018 : Secret Messages : Decoding with Filters

LEAP - Winter 2018

For too long, doctors treating rheumatic diseases have had to base their management on instinct and experience.

The problem is that each physician has a limited experience – which means that many times we basically had to guess at how to treat a specific patient, using trial and error to find out what might work best.

LEAP: Winter 2017

LEAP: Winter 2017

In this issue of LEAP you can read about our precision approach to an increasingly common illness, gout, to a rare illness linked to Sjögren’s, and to cancer patients who are developing some autoimmune-mediated complications. And we are especially excited to share with you a tremendous breakthrough in understanding how rheumatoid arthritis begins.