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Clinical and epidemiological research

• A high incidence of disease flares in an open pilot study of infliximab in patients with refractory inflammatory myopathies (13 February, 2008)

  M Dastmalchi, C Grundtman, H Alexanderson, C P Mavragani, H Einarsdottir, S Barbasso Helmers, K Elvin, M K Crow, I Nennesmo, I E Lundberg
• The optimal assessment of the rheumatoid arthritis hindfoot: a comparative study of clinical examination, ultrasound and high field MRI (7 February, 2008)

  R J Wakefield, J E Freeston, P O’Connor, N Reay, A Budgen, E M A Hensor, P S Helliwell, P Emery, J Woodburn
• Precision of 3.0 Tesla quantitative magnetic resonance imaging of cartilage morphology in a multicentre clinical trial (18 February, 2008)

  F Eckstein, R J Buck, D Burstein, H C Charles, J Crim, M Hudelmaier, D J Hunter, G Hutchins, C Jackson, V Byers Kraus, N E Lane, T M Link, L S Majumdar, S Mazzuca, P V Prasad, T J Schnitzer, M S Taljanovic, A Vaz, B Wyman, M-P Hellio Le Graverand
• Reactive arthritis following culture-confirmed infections with bacterial enteric pathogens in Minnesota and Oregon: a population-based study (13 February, 2008)

  J M Townes, A A Deodhar, E S Laine, K Smith, H E Krug, A Barkhuizen, M E Thompson, P R Cieslak, J Sobel
• Sustained effect after lowering high-dose infliximab in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a prospective dose titration study (31 January, 2008)

  B J F van den Bemt, A A den Broeder, G F Snijders, Y A Hekster, P L C M van Riel, B Benraad, G J Wolbink, F H J van den Hoogen
• The influence of consulting primary care on knee pain in older people: a prospective cohort study (31 January, 2008)

  M Blagojevic, C Jinks, K P Jordan
• Rheumatoid arthritis is milder in the new millennium: health status in patients with rheumatoid arthritis 1994–2004 (24 January, 2008)

  T Uhlig, T Heiberg, P Mowinckel, T K Kvien
• The placebo effect and its determinants in osteoarthritis: meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (9 June, 2008)

  W Zhang, J Robertson, A C Jones, P A Dieppe, M Doherty
• Variability in the biological response to anti-CD20 B cell depletion in systemic lupus erythaematosus (4 February, 2008)

  D Albert, J Dunham, S Khan, J Stansberry, S Kolasinski, D Tsai, S Pullman-Mooar, F Barnack, C Striebich, R J Looney, E T Luning Prak, R Kimberly, Y Zhang, R Eisenberg
• Tumour-like mass lesion: an under-recognised presentation of primary angiitis of the central nervous system (14 July, 2008)

  E S Molloy, A B Singhal, L H Calabrese
• Strontium ranelate reduces the risk of vertebral fracture in young postmenopausal women with severe osteoporosis (19 August, 2008)

  C Roux, J Fechtenbaum, S Kolta, G Isaia, J B Cannata Andia, J-P Devogelaer
• Self-assessments of patients via Tablet PC in routine patient care: comparison with standardised paper questionnaires (22 July, 2008)

  J G Richter, A Becker, T Koch, M Nixdorf, R Willers, R Monser, B Schacher, R Alten, C Specker, M Schneider