RA disease activity assessment
Keeping your rheumatoid arthritis well-controlled is one of the best things you can do for your joints and your heart. According to a study published in the journal
Arthritis & Rheumatology, people whose RA was in remission were 53 percent less likely to experience a serious cardiovascular event during the study’s three-year follow-up period.
Your rheumatologist should be assessing your RA disease activity at least once a year using a scoring tool that is approved by the American College of Rheumatology. There are many different ways to measure RA disease activity, but each involves different combinations of assessing factors like counts of painful and swollen joints, blood tests for inflammatory markers, and patients’ and physicians’ reports of pain and function in everyday life. They include:
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After witnessing so many criminal incidents during these four years, we, the members of the Roanoke NAACP Youth Council, have been appalled by the inappropriate behavior of Donald Trump and want to see him impeached.
People have died as a result of his behavior. A police officer named Brian D. Sicknick passed away after suffering from brutal injuries while on duty; an Air Force veteran, Ashli Babbitt, died after experiencing a fatal shot by the police; Benjamin Phillips, Kevin Greenson, and Rosanne Boyland all died at the scene of the attack.
This does not include over 50 police officers that reported to have been injured at the riot. These were precious human lives, taken and destroyed, because of their trust for Donald Trump, who promised he would march with them, and quite literally abandoned them before the riot.
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Lee University’s Hobbs Earns Doctorate Tuesday, January 26, 2021 - by Eliza Souers, Lee University
Dr. Pamela Hobbs
Dr. Pamela Hobbs, associate lecturer in health science at Lee University, earned her Doctor of Physical Therapy from The College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Mn.
“Completing my DPT will allow me to bring rich, real-world experiences to my students at Lee who will be the next generation of health care providers,” said Dr. Hobbs. “As an educator, it is important for me to model the pursuit of knowledge and lifelong learning for my students. This doctoral program bridged the gap between the knowledge and skills that I gained through my master’s degree program and current information and techniques.”
Light-Induced Lattice Twisting can Photogenerate Giant Electric Current
Written by AZoOpticsJan 20 2021
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy s Ames Laboratory and collaborators at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the University of Alabama at Birmingham have discovered a new light-induced switch that twists the crystal lattice of the material, switching on a giant electron current that appears to be nearly dissipationless.
The discovery was made in a category of topological materials that holds great promise for spintronics, topological effect transistors, and quantum computing.
Weyl and Dirac semimetals can host exotic, nearly dissipationless, electron conduction properties that take advantage of the unique state in the crystal lattice and electronic structure of the material that protects the electrons from doing so.