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Healio Rheumatology | For more than a decade, the medical community as a whole, and particularly the field of rheumatology, has been trying to move away from opioids for the management of chronic pain — with varying degrees of success.However, for a growing number of medical experts — in rheumatology and elsewhere — a completely new paradigm and understanding of pain, and its management, is needed.

Updated recommendations are presented for opioid use for the treatment of pain by the CDC.

This Viewpoint discusses incorporating indoor air ventilation, filtration, and disinfection measures as part of community-level SARS-CoV-2 transmission reductio

COVID-19 cases and deaths have been falling across the U.S. for several weeks as the omicron wave recedes. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says a new subvariant of omicron is beginning to spread — BA.2, also known as "stealth omicron."

Prevalence of this Omicron sub-lineage, sometimes misleadingly nicknamed a "stealth variant," now appears highest in the Northeast.