Rheumatoid Arthritis News

Alan Fields is in the early stages of a trial to test the effects of an arthritis drug on lung cancer.

Alternate-day fasting the best bet to fight flab Alternate-day fasting can be the right way lose weight and boost cardio-vascular health, experts from University of Illinois at Chicago have suggested.

A WELL known disabled campaigner went to Westminster to help Parliamentarians learn more about the impact of rheumatoid arthritis on people's working lives.

My internist told me he is now using the technique he learned many decades ago in the military, when supplies of vaccine were short and they had to split doses.

Watching insiders is like participating in a weeks-long stakeout. You expect something to happen, but you don't know what.

She's says she couldn't give you straight hand if she wanted to, but Jane Stanley has found she has much more to give.

Treatment with tumor necrosis factor blockers doesn't increase rheumatoid arthritis patients' risk of cancer, new research has found.

A recent study by Swedish researchers found that rheumatoid arthritis patients did not experience an elevated cancer risk in the first 6 years after starting anti-tumor necrosis factor therapy.

Main Category: Arthritis / Rheumatology Also Included In: Immune System / Vaccines Pain / Anesthetics Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia Article Date: 29 Oct 2009 Despite recent advances in anti-inflammatory therapy, many rheumatoid arthritis patients continue to suffer from pain.

In a paper published in Nature October 28, researchers describe how the body converts an ingredient found in fish oils into another chemical called Resolvin D2 and how this chemical reduces the inflammation that leads to a variety of diseases.

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Background The risk of development of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in autoimmune patients has been investigated in several cohort studies.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham is spearheading an effort to create a national database and repository to enable researchers to identify predictors of effectiveness of various treatments for rheumatoid arthritis .

Back in the dim days of black-and-white television, one over-the-counter product that was frequently advertised claimed to help "the heartbreak of psoriasis." The phrase is no longer heard in commercials, but the heartbreak is still there.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham is spearheading an effort to create a national database and repository to enable researchers to identify predictors of effectiveness of various treatments for rheumatoid arthritis .

Rheumatoid arthritis sufferers could be just a few years away from a new remedy in pill form, thanks largely to Pfizer Inc.

Dr. Joseph Berger is an obstetrician at Medical Associates Clinic. Local health care providers are scrambling to ensure that members of one particularly vulnerable group receive an H1N1 vaccination.

Main Category: Arthritis / Rheumatology Also Included In: Clinical Trials / Drug Trials Article Date: 23 Oct 2009 Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms focusing on pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that tumor necrosis factor -alpha inhibitors will continue to dominate first- and second-line biologic ...

For many people with rheumatoid arthritis , the traditional, and much cheaper, disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs appear to work just as well as newer TNF blockers that target the underlying disease process, a large study shows.

In the first and largest researcher-initiated blinded study comparing the effectiveness of a drug treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, researchers found a $1,000 treatment and a $25,000 treatment to have the same effectiveness.