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Knee Replacements Specifically for Women With Arthritis
MD News (press release)
While there are many types of arthritis, the two most common are osteoarthritis (OA) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Both of these types of arthritis produce joint inflammation and can cause similar symptoms within joints,…
Defective Gene Found to Causes Rheumatoid Arthritis
Medical Daily
Researchers have found that a defective gene can contribute to the onset of rheumatoid arthritis, a crippling inflammation of the joints that affect about 1 percent of the world's population. Until now, the underlying molecular mechanism of the disease ...Read more
Private MD
Rheumatoid Arthritis Increases Cardiovascular Risk
ThirdAge
A rheumatoid arthritis drug met key treatment goals in two late-stage studies, drug developer Pfizer Inc. said Thursday. Rheumatoid arthritis has been tied to heart disease, a new study indicates. RA-related inflammation can increase the risk of death ...
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Healing exercises help balance fitness regimen
Salt Lake Tribune
Spinal osteoarthritis, degenerative disc disease, herniated discs, inflammation in the spinal column space and spinal stenosis all become more common as people age. Resultant surgeries can reduce pain, but if the surgeries fail, ...
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Rheumatoid Arthritis Can Be Caused By A20 Gene Expression Defect
Medical News Today
Investigators from VIB (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) and Ghent University have revealed that a defective gene can contribute to the onset of rheumatoid arthritis, an inflammation of the joints which is often-crippling and affects around 1%…
Private MD
Inflammation From Rheumatoid Arthritis Tied to Heart Disease
U.S. News & World Report
17 (HealthDay News) -- People with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are at increased risk of death from heart disease and other cardiovascular events due to RA-related inflammation and other risk factors, a new study indicates.…
Title: Inflammation From Rheumatoid Arthritis Tied to Heart Disease
Category: Health News
Created: 8/17/2011 10:05:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/17/2011
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Arthritis ups heart disease risk
Irish Health
Over 40000 people in Ireland have rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a painful condition which causes the joints to become inflamed. Now, researchers have found that this inflammation is one of the reasons why people with RA are more likely to die from heart…
The Hindu
People With Arthritis Shun Exercise — Though It Would Help, Not Hurt
NPR (blog)
But exercise is actually good medicine for osteoarthritis. It is proven to reduce pain and inflammation, makes it easier to move, and can prevent or delay disability. Alas, the people with knee arthritis…
Knee osteoarthritis sex disparity to be explored
CBC.ca
Beginning of Story Content The question of whether women experience more pain and inflammation from knee osteoarthritis than men because of biological differences will be investigated by US and Canadian researchers. Osteoarthritis is a disease that ...
Why knee osteoarthritis afflicts…
Heal Blog (blog)
Knee Osteoarthritis 101
Heal Blog (blog)
What more can be more popular than osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis is a specific kind of arthritis, and is the most common among the three, the two others being rheumatoid arthritis and gouty arthritis. Osteoarthritis is basically an inflammation of the ...Read more
Genetic Engineering News
Roche wins EU backing for wider use of arthritis drug
Reuters
The medicine, known as Actemra outside of Europe, is already used to treat adult rheumatoid arthritis in patients who were either intolerant to or failed to respond to other medicines to treat inflammation. The drug…
Positive regulators of osteoclastogenesis and bone resorption in rheumatoid ...
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
Bone destruction is a frequent and clinically serious event in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Local joint destruction can cause joint instability and often necessitates reconstructive or replacement surgery. Moreover, inflammation-induced ...
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The diabetes drug rosiglitazone (Avandia) can control inflammation leading to nerve damage and abnormal pain responses, suggests a paper in the August issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS)... Read more
Genetic fibromyalgia subgroup with higher BMI & inflammation identified - UT ...
ProHealth
We proposed to determine whether these BDNF gene SNPs were associated with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) and/or any of its typical phenotypes. Patients with FMS (N = 95) and healthy normal controls (HNC, N = 58) were…
Balky back puts Polanco on disabled list
Delaware County Daily Times
Polanco, who had played through back pain for weeks before succumbing to it during a series in Florida earlier this month, has finished a dose pack of prednisone to calm the inflammation. However, with the Phillies holding a…
Early Remission of Joint Inflammation Prevents RA Disability
Medscape
July 14, 2011 — Risk for long-term disability drops significantly in patients with inflammatory polyarthritis, such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA), who attain at least 1 period of remission, defined as absence of clinically detectable joint inflammation ...
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Good nutrition can ease the pain of rheumatoid arthritis
Bangor Daily News (blog)
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory, autoimmune disease that is debilitating, deforming and depressing. It results in joint inflammation that is expressed by swelling, pain, functional impairment ...
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Mangalore: KMC Hospital Launches Rheumatology Clinic
Daijiworld.com
Mangalore, Jul 10: Kasturba Medical College (KMC) Hospital will offer a special screening camp for Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) from July 11 to August 31. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease that causes chronic inflammation of the joints. ...
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The discovery that a protein called CXCL5 is responsible for triggering the pain of sunburn may indicate it has a wider role in other inflammation-related conditions. This could pave the way for new drugs that have fewer side effects than current painkillers and analgesics, said UK researchers whose work is…
