Arthritis Blog

Happy Thanksgiving! As many people scurry about, dusting off their fine china and table decorations in preparation for the feast, it's time for me to put up my traditional ... Read More

I hesitated to review this book. It focuses on subjects which seemed foreign to me (i.e. Arthritis can be caused by food sensitivity. Alternative treatments are more beneficial ... Read More

The U.S. Senate has passed a $400 billion plan to overhaul Medicare, including a prescription drug plan. The bill now moves over to the White House for President Bush's ... Read More

Applied Molecular Evolution, Inc. announced that it has submitted an investigational new drug application to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration to evaluate AME-527 as a potential new therapy for ... Read More

AARP has strongly endorsed the Medicare prescription drug bill offered by the conference committee, believing that "millions of older Americans and their families will be helped" by its passage. ... Read More

A new study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association reveals that treatment for depression also improved arthritis symptoms in older people suffering with the comorbid conditions. ... Read More

No government agency is responsible for routinely testing glucosamine, chondroitin, and MSM supplements for their contents or quality. ConsumerLab.com independently evaluated several human and veterinary products to determine whether ... Read More

A fusion protein, cytotoxic T-lymphocyte–associated antigen 4–IgG1 (CTLA4Ig), is the first in a new class of drugs known as costimulation blockers being evaluated for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. ... Read More

It's the fastest growing scam and swindle of Medicare. Fifty separate investigations in nearly two-dozen states have identified $167 million in fraudulent Medicare claims for power wheelchairs. You ... Read More

Headaches, back pain, arthritis and other muscle and joint pain cost the nation's employers more than $60 billion a year in lost productivity. Do you think most of the ... Read More

BBCNEWS reports that surgeons have successfully grown new finger and toe joints in people with rheumatoid arthritis. The technique can reverse the damage caused by the disease, restoring movement ... Read More

According to a survey reported by Reuters, Europeans are unaware of the dangers of rheumatoid arthritis, ignoring symptoms and delaying a crucial early visit to the doctor. Many were ... Read More

Can baseball rejuvenate your spirit and renew your strength? Our friend and fellow rheumatoid arthritis sufferer, Karol Silverstein, offers her insight in the Philadelphia Daily News.

A gene linked to osteoporosis has been identified by Decode Genetics, the Icelandic company that is leading efforts to find the genes that underlie common human diseases. People with ... Read More

From the Sydney Morning Herald in Australia: "The chairman of the therapeutics committee of the Australian Rheumatology Association, Jim Bertouch, said combining COX-2 inhibitors with diuretics and ACE inhibitors was ... Read More

Pain Therapeutics, a biotechnology company, is developing an abuse-resistant version of the painkiller OxyContin. When will it go into clinical trials? When can we expect it to be ... Read More

Complementary and alternative medicine may give you more treatment options, but some of those options can help you, and some can hurt you. How can you sort through the ... Read More

WebMD reports on a study that shows people who use chopsticks on a daily basis are more likely to develop hand osteoarthritis, the most common form of arthritis that is ... Read More

Leptin, an obesity-related hormone, may play a key role in the development of osteoarthritis, according to a study published in the November 2003 issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism. Related Resources ... Read More