The Queen Elizabeth Hospital

So this is the polymyalgia rheumatica update that I think a lot of people are hoping for.

I spoke with Professor Kathryn Hill, who is head of Rheumatology Unit at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Adelaide.

Polymyalgia rheumatica, or PMR as, uh, you referred to it, is an inflammatory illness that affects mainly older people.

We say over 50, but really it's mainly over 65s, and it causes inflammation around, predominantly around the shoulders and the hips, and associated with a lot of early morning stiffness when you get out of bed.

So this morning, we're going to start right out with the results of the ARISE fluid trial.

The trialists this morning are Sandra Peek, a professor at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Adelaide, Stephen McDonald, an emergency physician and clinical associate professor at the University of Western Australia Medical School, and Belinda Howe, who's a senior project manager at ANZICS in Monash.

The editorialist is Tina Silvest-Meihoff from the University of Copenhagen.

And our panel is David Harrison, the co-director of ICDAC, and Marlise Osterman, who is a consultant in critical care and nephrology at Guy's and St. Thomas and the King's College London, and Israel Maia, an intensivist and pulmonologist, as you all know, from Sao Paulo, Brazil.