ACR2013: What clues suggest impending rheumatoid arthritis in a patient with stiffness and joint problems? A comparative study offers an answer, and another suggests that sleep problems are an important clue to severity of RA.

ACR2013: Cognitive problems among fibromyalgia patients do not worsen over time or lead to anything resembling Alzheimer disease, a new study shows.

ACR2013: More familiar as a suspect in Alzheimer disease, amyloid proteins may trigger autoantibodies in lupus when introduced via infection, a mouse study suggests.

ACR2013: Urate crystals turned up in dual-energy CT and pathology studies of OA patients never diagnosed with gout who came to the Mayo Clinic for knee replacement, raising intriguing questions.

ACR2013: Research continues to implicate the obesity-associated molecule leptin as a factor in osteoarthritis, independent of the mechanical effects of body weight. Factors that control leptin show promise as future treatments.

We owe it to the current generation of clinicians to remember that an elite minority within the American psychiatric profession played a small but ultimately decisive role in the cultural validation, and then reduction, of the Satanism moral panic between 1988 and 1994.

CHICAGO — While some radiology groups are embracing meaningful use, others are taking a wait-and-see approach or opting for the exemption.

The powers that be often already know the ticking time bombs around us, but have decided they'd rather gamble and clean up the mess later.