Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) should be treated as early as possible in order to avoid irreversible joint damage and to slow disease progression. The multitude of new treatment modalities for RA, as well ...

It can strike anyone: rheumatism occurs just as often as diabetes, arteriosclerosis and cancer combined. Approximately one percent of the population is stricken with the rheumatoid arthritis. Now ...

The 'European League Against Rheumatism' is an international organisation in the field of rheumatology. The society publishes a medical journal, the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, and organises an ...

Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), a specific class of antacid drugs, are among the most widely used medications of all. They are frequently prescribed to many groups of patients, including those with ...

A single course of low-dose radiation therapy may provide a safe and effective alternative treatment option for people with painful knee osteoarthritis according to a new randomized, ...

As a result o hvestigations begun so long ago as 1922, the Medial Advisory Committee to the Ministry of Health commended in 1945 that a number of diagnostic/find research centres should be established ...

Researchers randomly assigned 70 individuals with PR who were seropositive for rheumatoid factor or anti-citrullinated protein antibodies in a 1:1 ratio to receive open-label abatacept (ABA) at 125 mg ...

For a man of 75, the commencement speaker at Kansas State University seemed remarkably spry. But under the erect military bearing, the painful truth was that former President Dwight Eisenhower has not ...

Arthritis & Rheumatism. 2005;52(7):2026-2032. Losing a Pound Results in a 4-Pound Reduction in Knee-Joint Load For Each Step, Suggests Study of Overweight and Obese Patients The leading cause of ...

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Modestly, Bacteriologist James C. Small of the Philadelphia General Hospital told Director Wilmer Krusen of the Philadelphia Public Health Department that he had isolated a new, minute organism ...

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