50th Year of Publication: Progress in Rheumatology During the 2010s.

In this edition of The Journal of Rheumatology , I will be bringing to your attention the following 6 articles from the 2010s that had, and continue to have, a significant impact in rheumatology. Although I usually choose 3 papers, I have chosen 6 that can be grouped into 3 categories. The first category has a single paper that describes a modification of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) classification of fibromyalgia (FM),1 the second category contains 2 papers on the use of the internet and social media in rheumatology,2,3 and the third contains 3 papers on long-term outcome studies in rheumatoid arthritis (RA).4-6 The first paper I wish to bring to your attention is “Fibromyalgia criteria and severity scales for clinical and epidemiological studies: a modification of the ACR Preliminary Diagnostic Criteria for Fibromyalgia” by Wolfe et al. … Address correspondence to Dr. E.D. Silverman, Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Rheumatology, 365 Bloor Street East, Suite 901, Toronto, ON M4W 3L4, Canada. Email: esilverman{at}jrheum.com.