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December 2025

2024 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) guideline for the screening, treatment, and management of lupus nephritis

Antirheumatic drugs in reproduction, pregnancy, and lactation: a systematic literature review informing the 2024 update of the EULAR recommendations

Comparative efficacy and safety of exercise modalities in knee osteoarthritis: systematic review and network meta-analysis

Cryotherapy following total knee replacement (new Cochrane intervention review)

Dietary polyunsaturated fatty acid and the risk of rheumatoid arthritis: insights from genetic predisposition and proteomics

Effects of pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic interventions for the management of sleep problems in people with fibromyalgia: systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Expert perspective: hematologic malignancies and vasculitis

Expert perspective: how, when, and why to potentially stop antiresorptive drugs in osteoporosis

EULAR/ACR classification criteria for paediatric chronic nonbacterial osteomyelitis (CNO)

EULAR/ACR risk stratification criteria for development of rheumatoid arthritis in the risk stage of arthralgia

Gastrointestinal perforation as a safety concern among patients with rheumatoid arthritis receiving JAK inhibitor therapy: a systematic review and network meta-analysis

Global burden of osteoarthritis attributable to high body mass index, 1990 to 2021: insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

Gout and NLRP3 inflammasome biology

Investigating endogenous immune-mediated monocyte memory in rheumatoid arthritis

Large-scale proteomics analysis identifies plasma protein biomarkers and potential therapeutic targets for rheumatoid arthritis: a prospective study in UK Biobank

Metabolic consequences of rheumatoid arthritis

Physician's global assessment of disease activity in juvenile idiopathic arthritis: consensus-based recommendations from an international task force

Pseudogout, chondrocalcinosis, CPPD et al: crystal clear… or clear as mud?–The time has come to reconsider the nomenclature of calcium pyrophosphate deposition

Recommendations for the use of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs in pregnancy and reproductive health for patients with rheumatic disease: a scoping review

Satisfaction with telemedicine versus in-person visits in rheumatology: a noninferiority randomised controlled trial

Sleep matters: exploring the link between sleep disturbances and fatigue in rheumatoid arthritis

Systematic review and independent validation of genetic factors of radiographic outcome in rheumatoid arthritis identifies a genome-wide association with CARD9

Sources

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases (Aug-Sep); Arthritis & Rheumatology (Sep-Nov); Arthritis Care & Research (Sep-Nov); BMJ (Oct); Bone (Nov); Cochrane Library (Sep-Oct)

October 2025

Association of physical therapy care with use of intra-articular injections in people with knee osteoarthritis: a real-world cohort study

Associations and diagnostic accuracy of ultrasound features in knee osteoarthritis: cross-sectional results from a large community-based cohort

Associations of fire smoke and other pollutants with incident rheumatoid arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis–associated interstitial lung disease

Avoidable hospitalizations in persons with rheumatoid arthritis: a population-based study using administrative data

The effects of calcitonin gene-related peptide on cartilage in osteoarthritis

Global, regional and national burden of knee osteoarthritis 1990–2021: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease study 2021

The gut microbiome in hyperuricemia and gout

Immune aging in rheumatoid arthritis

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (NEJM review)

Lupus flares: more common in dialysis patients than in post–kidney transplant recipients - a systematic review and meta-analysis

The National Academies’ 2024 diagnostic criteria for Long COVID: concerns that could affect the rheumatology community

Nociplasticity: a proposed concept to understand the symptomatology of systemic lupus erythematosus

Peripheral biomarker signatures in rheumatoid arthritis–associated interstitial lung disease

Plasma proteomic profiles predict individual future osteoarthritis risk

Pregnancy outcomes of targeted synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs among patients with autoimmune diseases: a scoping review

Primary Sjögren’s Disease: a review of unmet need, outcome measures, therapeutic advances and health economic impacts. Lessons from the NEw Clinical Endpoints in primary Sjögren’s Syndrome: an Interventional Trial based on stratifYing patients (NECESSITY) Innovative Health Initiative (IHI)

Treating juvenile dermatomyositis to target: Paediatric Rheumatology European Society/Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance-endorsed recommendations from an international task force

Vitamin D Is associated with susceptibility and disease severity in systemic lupus erythematosus: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Sources

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases (Jul); Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics (Sep); Arthritis & Rheumatology (Jul-Aug); Arthritis Care & Research (Jul-Aug); International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases (Jul-Aug); NEJM (Jul)

August 2025

25 years of biologics for the treatment of pediatric rheumatic disease: advances in prognosis and ongoing challenges

Advancing rheumatologic care in older adults: highlights from the 2024 American Geriatrics Society Annual Scientific Meeting

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases collection on axial spondyloarthritis (2022-2024): advances in the field

Diagnostic delay and less intensive therapy for people with psoriatic arthritis compared with rheumatoid arthritis: a study nested within an English and Welsh audit data set

Efficacy of Janus kinase inhibitors in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases a systematic literature review informing the 2024 update of an international consensus statement

Environmental risk factors for systemic lupus erythematosus through the lens of social determinants of health

EULAR/PReS endorsed recommendations for the management of familial Mediterranean fever (FMF): 2024 update

EULAR recommendations for use of antirheumatic drugs in reproduction, pregnancy, and lactation: 2024 update

Expert consensus statement on the treatment of immune-mediated inflammatory diseases with Janus kinase inhibitors: 2024 update

Expert perspective: diagnostic approach to differentiating juvenile dermatomyositis from muscular dystrophy

Gout flares after stopping anti-inflammatory prophylaxis: a rapid literature review and meta-analysis

Inflammatory bowel disease and risk of rheumatoid arthritis: a UK Biobank cohort study

Management of relapses in giant cell arteritis

Obesity substantially impacts rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases: time to act

Physician views and attitudes regarding tobacco-cessation strategies for patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Potentially elevated rheumatoid arthritis risk due to chemotherapy-induced inflammation in prostate cancer with bone metastasis

Safety and efficacy of ianalumab in patients with Sjögren's disease: 52-week results from a randomized, placebo-controlled, phase 2b dose-ranging study

Safety of colchicine on fertility, pregnancy, and lactation: a systematic review and meta-analysis informing the EULAR/PReS recommendations for familial Mediterranean fever

Safety of Janus kinase inhibitors in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases – a systematic literature review informing the 2024 update of an international expert consensus statement

Sources

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases (May-Jun); Arthritis & Rheumatology (May-Jun); Arthritis Care & Research (May-Jun); International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases (Jun)

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