From MedPage Today:

1. Don’t Demonize Processed Food. I’m not sure anything garners more discussion in the nutrition world these days than the term “processed food.”
2. Heritability of RA Remains Unexplained. Most of the familial aggregation of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) can’t be explained by currently established genetic or environmental risk factors.
3. Adalimumab Biosimilar Succeeds in RA. A biosimilar to adalimumab (Humira) met its primary endpoint of clinical equivalence in a phase III study evaluating its efficacy for rheumatoid arthritis.
4. Health IT Chief Is Getting Back to Basics. When it comes to making patient health records easier to share across different systems, it’s all about focusing on the basics, according to Karen DeSalvo, MD, MPH, the health information technology chief at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).