Local News: Little River, CA 

 | 

Sign Up

 | 

Sign In

Advertisment

Rheumatoid Arthritis

Rheumatoid Arthritis News Editors

RoboBlogger

I edit this news page on Topix when no humans are available to help.

People just like you make Rheumatoid Arthritis News on Topix better every day. If you're interested in becoming an editor, apply today!

Edits History | Editor Blog

RSS icon mobile icon

Rheumatoid Arthritis News

News on Rheumatoid Arthritis continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.

2 hrs ago | Bizjournals

Fields testing new lung cancer treatment in Mayo research

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

Comment?

Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Health, Lung Cancer, Arthritis, Cell Biology, Biology, Science

Sat Nov 07, 2009

AndhraNews

Arthritis drug may help treat inflammation in Graves eye disease patients

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.

Comment?

Related Topix: Inflammation, Health, Arthritis, University of Illinois Chicago

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Ellesmere Port Standard

Chester campaigner for disabled visits Westminster

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

Comment?

Related Topix: Arthritis, Medicine, Health

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Richmond Register

Vaccine supply and the public option

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.

Comment?

Related Topix: Health, Influenza

Sun Nov 01, 2009

The Motley Fool

Eye on Insiders: Amgen

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

Comment?

Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Amgen, Healthcare Industry, Drink, Coffee, Johnson and Johnson, Pfizer, Health

Sat Oct 31, 2009

KWCH

Newton Woman Overcomes Disease to Give to Others

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.

Comment?

Related Topix: Medicine

Fri Oct 30, 2009

CBC News

Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment Doesn't Promote Cancer

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

Comment?

Related Topix: Medicine, Arthritis, Health, Tnf, Enbrel, Etanercept (generic), Science / Technology

Thu Oct 29, 2009

Physics Org

Anti-tumor necrosis factor treatment does not increase cancer Risk in RA patients

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.

Comment?

Related Topix: Medicine, Arthritis, Health, Tnf, Sweden, World News, Enbrel, Etanercept (generic)

MediLexicon

Link Between Pain Thresholds, Inflammation And Sleep Problems In Arthritis Patients

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.

Comment?

Related Topix: Medicine, Arthritis, Health

Wed Oct 28, 2009

Science Daily

Why Fish Oils Help With Conditions Like Rheumatoid Arthritis How They Could Help Even More

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.

Comment?

Related Topix: Medicine, Health

Red Deer Advocate

Many options for arthritis pain relief

A friend of my called me the other to ask what she can do for her aching knees. a oeIta s this weather, a oeshe said, a oeand I dona t want to use ASA, it upsets my stomach.a Natural pain relief for arthritis offers short-term symptomatic relief and long-term relief through reducing continued damage and promoting repair.

Comment?

Related Topix: Medicine, Arthritis, Health, Aspirin (generic), Bayer, Alka-Seltzer, Medication, Pain, Chemistry, Science

Tue Oct 27, 2009

Archives Internal Medicine

The Risk of Lymphoma Development in Autoimmune Diseases

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

Comment?

Related Topix: Lymphoma, Medicine

Mon Oct 26, 2009

Examiner.com

Rheumatoid arthitis, the causes, the symptoms, and the treatments

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 .

Comment?

Related Topix: Medicine, Arthritis, Health, University of Alabama

Sun Oct 25, 2009

Deseret News

Tumeric helpful for psoriasis

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.

Comment?

Related Topix: Psoriasis, Medicine, Health, Enbrel, Etanercept (generic), Arthritis

MediLexicon

UAB Creates National Network To Advance Personalized Medicine In Rheumatoid Arthritis

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 .

Comment?

Related Topix: Medicine, Arthritis, Health, University of Alabama

The Day

New rheumatoid arthritis drug holds promise for Pfizer

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

Comment?

Related Topix: Pfizer, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Health, Arthritis, Groton, CT, New London Metro, New London, CT

Sat Oct 24, 2009

Telegraph Herald

Pregnant women at higher risk from H1N1

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.

Comment?

Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Biotech, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Healthcare Industry, Arthritis

Fri Oct 23, 2009

MediLexicon

TNF-Alpha Inhibitors Will Continue To Dominate First- And Second-Line ...

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 ...

Comment?

Related Topix: Tnf, Medicine, Health, Arthritis, Biotech, Healthcare Industry, Enbrel, Etanercept (generic), Medication, Science, Computer Science

WebMD Health News

Study: No Benefit to Costly Arthritis Drugs

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.

Comment?

Related Topix: Medicine, Arthritis, Health, Tnf, Rheumatrex, Methotrexate (generic), Medication, University of Pittsburgh, Plaquenil, Hydroxychloroquine (generic)

Health News Digest

Significantly Cheaper Drugs as Effective as Expensive Drugs in Treating Early Rheumatoid Arthritis

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.

Comment?

Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Arthritis, Rheumatrex, Methotrexate (generic), Medication, Plaquenil, Hydroxychloroquine (generic), Sulfasalazine (generic), Azulfidine, Enbrel, Etanercept (generic)

Also on Topix