By Dr Irwin Lim on April 21, 2013

My patient emailed me last week, distressed. Her rheumatoid isn't the issue and hasn't been, even since she commenced TNF-inhibitor therapy. The ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on April 1, 2013

By Dr Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist 2004 was the year I commenced my own practice as a rheumatologist. It was also the year the TNF inhibitors became ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on March 17, 2013

I recently took a call from a patient I had just commenced on Methotrexate (at a low dose of 10mg once a week). She was worried by what a ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on March 12, 2013

By Dr Irwin Lim Last weekend, I attended a great talk on the effect of rheumatology medications on pregnancy by the dynamic Aussie rheumatology duo, ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on February 27, 2013

By Dr Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist Methotrexate would sit somewhere in the top 5 list of prescriptions I initiate. I spend lots of time talking about ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on January 2, 2013

By Dr Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist Strontium is a medication used for Osteoporosis. There is good clinical trial data of it's ability to improve the ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on December 17, 2012

By Dr Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist Barry from Florida emailed me regarding the post on biologic choice for Rheumatoid Arthritis (link). He's kindly ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on December 12, 2012

I'm over the jetlag. I think. The brain fog lifted sometime this am. The 2 days I spent in Leeds discussing rheumatoid arthritis with 20 ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on November 10, 2012

By Dr Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist Let's assume you have a serious disease and your doctor has recommended more serious therapy. Stronger medications. ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on November 7, 2012

By Dr Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist My twitter feed was abuzz with the Presidential election results (congrats, Mr Obama). The other item making the ...