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• Trump win threatens climate funds for poor, a key to Paris accord

  12-11-2016 22:07
  By Alister Doyle MARRAKESH, Morocco (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump's policies are likely to make it harder for developing nations to obtain the growing finance they need to combat climate change, threatening one pillar of a 2015 international agreement to slow global warming. Many developing nations' promises to act under last year's Paris Agreement set pre-conditions including increasing funds to help them limit greenhouse gas emissions and make their economies more resilient to heat
  
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• Trump's Victory and the Politics of Resentment

  12-11-2016 19:00 via rss.sciam.com
  
  A political scientist’s research explains a lot about why true-blue Wisconsin turned red in 2016, and about the mood of rural and small town America
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• Birding group plans suit to fight wind turbine on Lake Erie

  12-11-2016 15:33
  PORT CLINTON, Ohio (AP) — A national birding organization opposed to a commercial-scale wind turbine planned along western Lake Erie says it will sue to block the project if the Ohio Air National Guard doesn't drop its plans.
  
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• How to Photograph the Supermoon: NASA Pro Shares His Tips

  12-11-2016 13:17
  
  The biggest, brightest full moon of 2016 is just around the corner. If you'd like to capture the memory of Monday's supermoon on camera, a pro photographer at NASA has some tips for you. A so-called supermoon takes place when the moon, in its full phase, is at the closest point to Earth in the 27-day lunar orbit. The Nov. 14 supermoon will appear about 15 percent larger  than average and is the closest full moon in 68 years.
  
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• Microsoft Surface Book review: Who needs a $4,000 laptop?

  12-11-2016 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Even with its transformable screen and top-of-class power, who needs to spend thousands of dollars on a laptop in 2016?
  
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• Women & long-term axial spondyloarthropathy patients at higher risk for manifestations

  12-11-2016 06:00
  
  (American College of Rheumatology) Gender and disease duration can help predict which axial spondyloarthritis patients will develop extra-articular manifestations such as uveitis, or inflammation of the eye, according to new research findings presented this week at the 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting in Washington.
  
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• Wnt inhibitor may ease pain, and improve function and cartilage loss in knee OA

  12-11-2016 06:00
  
  (American College of Rheumatology) Injection of a Wnt inhibitor drug showed promise to ease pain, improve joint function, and even slow or reverse cartilage loss in patients with knee osteoarthritis, according to new research findings presented this week at the 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting in Washington in Washington.Osteoarthritis, or OA, is the most common joint disease affecting middle-aged and older people.
  
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• Urate-lowering therapy helps chronic kidney disease patients improve organ function

  12-11-2016 06:00
  
  (American College of Rheumatology) Chronic kidney disease patients who take urate-lowering therapy and achieve target urate levels show improvement in kidney function, according to new research findings presented this week at the 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting in Washington.
  
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• Too many patients with inflammatory joint diseases undermanaged for cardiovascular risk

  12-11-2016 06:00
  
  (American College of Rheumatology) While patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis or spondyloarthritis are at increased risk for cardiovascular disease, too few are prescribed preventive medications or meeting target goals to prevent heart-related events, according to new research findings presented this week at the 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting in Washington.
  
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• Three gene sets could predict response to rheumatoid arthritis therapies

  12-11-2016 06:00
  
  (American College of Rheumatology) Three gene expression signatures can help rheumatologists predict which patients are more likely to respond to tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi) or B-cell depletion therapies in patients with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, according to new research findings presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Scientific Meeting in Washington.
  
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• Statins may lower mortality risk in ankylosing spondylitis and psoriatic arthritis patients

  12-11-2016 06:00
  
  (American College of Rheumatology) Patients with ankylosing spondylitis or psoriatic arthritis who take statins may have as much as a 33 percent lower mortality risk, according to new research findings presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Scientific Meeting in Washington.
  
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• Race, ethnicity and education levels linked to delays accessing lupus specialty care

  12-11-2016 06:00
  
  (American College of Rheumatology) Lupus patients who are African-American or Asian, or those who have attained only a high school education or less, had longer delays in seeing a rheumatologist or nephrologist for a confirmed diagnosis than other groups, according to new research findings presented this week at the 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting in Washington.
  
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• Myocardial inflammation elevated in RA patients

  12-11-2016 06:00
  
  (American College of Rheumatology) Two new studies measure the prevalence of myocardial inflammation in RA patients without known cardiovascular disease, assess how it is associated with high disease activity and show how disease-modifying therapy may decrease this type of inflammation, according to new research findings presented this week at the 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting in Washington.
  
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• Most people with knee OA meet physical function level to walk recommended 6,000 steps a day

  12-11-2016 06:00
  
  (American College of Rheumatology) People with knee osteoarthritis (OA) often have difficulty with physical function, such as getting out of a chair and walking, which limits the ability to be physically active.According to new research findings presented this week at the 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting in Washington, most people with knee OA actually already have the physical function necessary to walk at least 6,000 steps a day, the minimum amount needed to improve their arthritis and prevent dis
  
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• More coordinated care between physicians may improve lipid screenings in RA patients

  12-11-2016 06:00
  
  (American College of Rheumatology) Patients with rheumatoid arthritis whose rheumatologists and primary-care physicians coordinate their care have a higher likelihood of being screened for hyperlipidemia, a key risk factor for coronary heart disease, according to new research findings presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Scientific Meeting in Washington.
  
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• Monocyte gene expression signatures predict how ra patients respond to anti-TNF therapy

  12-11-2016 06:00
  
  (American College of Rheumatology) Distinct gene expression signatures in rheumatoid arthritis patients could help rheumatologists predict how these individuals will respond to tumor necrosis factor inhibitors, and may one day enable a more personalized approach to RA therapy, according to new research findings presented this week at the 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting in Washington.
  
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• Men and women show sex-specific improvements after hip replacement

  12-11-2016 06:00
  
  (American College of Rheumatology) Outcomes such as pain, function, range of motion, and strength after total hip arthroplasty, or joint replacement surgery, are different for men and women, which could lead to the development of sex-specific rehabilitation programs, according to new research findings presented this week at the 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting in Washington.
  
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• Gut bacteria may be a trigger for antiphospholipid syndrome

  12-11-2016 06:00
  
  (American College of Rheumatology) The gut microbiomes of patients with antiphospholipid syndrome show higher levels of phospholipid-producing bacteria, and this findings point to microbes being a trigger for this life-threatening disease, according to new research findings presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Scientific Meeting in Washington.
  
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• First-line therapy with rituximab may lower mortality risk in RA patients with lung conditions

  12-11-2016 06:00
  
  (American College of Rheumatology) Patients with rheumatoid arthritis who also have lung involvement often have increased mortality, but first-line therapy with rituximab may help them live longer when compared with the use of TNF inhibitors , according to new research findings presented this week at the 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting in Washington.
  
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• Combination of NSAIDs and TNF-inhibitors shows benefit for ankylosing spondylitis

  12-11-2016 06:00
  
  (American College of Rheumatology) A combination of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and TNF-inhibitors may help slow down spine damage in ankylosing spondylitis, according to new research findings presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Scientific Meeting in Washington.
  
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• Cardiovascular event risk of RA patients comparable to type-2 diabetes over 15-year period

  12-11-2016 06:00
  
  (American College of Rheumatology) Rheumatoid arthritis is associated with serious risk of cardiovascular (CV) disease events such as heart attack or stroke. Over a 15-year period, people with RA may have double the risk of CV events as those in the general population, rates that are similar to people with type-2 diabetes, according to new research findings presented this week at the 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting in Washington.
  
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• Behavioral intervention reduces anxiety, depression among adults impaired by psychological distress

  12-11-2016 06:00
  
  (The JAMA Network Journals) In a study published online by JAMA, Atif Rahman, Ph.D., of the University of Liverpool, England, and colleagues evaluated the effectiveness of a multicomponent behavioral intervention delivered in primary care centers in Peshawar, Pakistan by lay health workers to adults with psychological distress. The study is being released to coincide with its presentation at the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies annual meeting.
  
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• Venezuela government and opposition talk, expectations low

  12-11-2016 03:42
  By Diego Oré and Deisy Buitrago CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition and the government of President Nicolas Maduro engaged in a new round of talks on Friday evening as part of a Vatican-backed dialogue process meant to ease a political standoff amid the spiralling economic crisis. Neither side appeared optimistic, however, with the opposition insisting on a recall referendum against Maduro and the Socialist administration showing little indication of agreeing to that. The governmen
  
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• Strong quake strikes off Japan's east coast; no casualties

  12-11-2016 01:15
  TOKYO (AP) — A magnitude-6.2 earthquake struck off the east coast of Japan early Saturday, but no damage or casualties were reported.
  
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