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A Plateau in RA Treatment Progress?

A Plateau in RA Treatment Progress?

Kelly O'Neill 8 Comments ,
A patient’s look at RA treatment progress In this provocative guest post, RA Warrior welcomes Dana Symons, who asks whether we’ve reached A Plateau in RA Treatment Progress. If you’re like me, you’ll wonder why other news outlets haven’t asked these questions. But first, Dana is the talent behind many RD awareness graphics provided by the...Continue reading      8 Comments » Read more
Why Rheumatoid Arthritis Frailty Matters

Why Rheumatoid Arthritis Frailty Matters

Kelly O'Neill 9 Comments ,
What is rheumatoid arthritis frailty? The word frailty suggests a serious level of health vulnerability. In medical terms, frailty often describes a range of conditions in elderly people: “frailty comprises a collection of biomedical factors which influences an individual's physiological state in a way that reduces his or her capacity to withstand environmental stresses.”1 Frailty expresses...Continue reading      9 Comments » Read more
Arthritis Prescreening Like Minority Report

Arthritis Prescreening Like Minority Report

Kelly O'Neill 12 Comments , ,
Arthritis prescreening is like Minority Report with Tom Cruise …Or is it? When I read Dr. Scott’s creative newspaper column, comparing rheumatoid arthritis prescreening to Minority Report, the sci-fi flick about punishing crimes before they happen, I didn’t know where to begin. I love movie analogies – there are a bunch of them on this blog. But Dr. Scott...Continue reading      12 Comments » Read more
Rheumatoid Arthritis CRP Levels

Rheumatoid Arthritis CRP Levels

Kelly O'Neill 26 Comments ,
Why look at rheumatoid arthritis CRP levels? C-reactive protein, commonly called CRP, is a protein that can be produced by the liver in response to other immune activity, especially the increase of IL-6. CRP can rise quickly in response to many inflammatory conditions such as infections or injury, helping clear out dying cells or bacteria. Blood tests for...Continue reading      26 Comments » Read more
Rheumatoid Arthritis Clinical Trials: 10 Facts

Rheumatoid Arthritis Clinical Trials: 10 Facts

Kelly O'Neill 3 Comments ,
How do Rheumatoid Arthritis clinical trials work? Clinical trials are research studies that test medications, devices, or procedures that may be used to treat a disease. Sometimes already approved medications are also tested in new ways. Rheumatoid Arthritis clinical trials not only help to create new treatments, but also help develop better ways of managing the...Continue reading      3 Comments » Read more
Rheumatoid Arthritis Progression Tool

Rheumatoid Arthritis Progression

Kelly O'Neill 6 Comments ,
The paradox of Rheumatoid Arthritis progression The term rheumatoid arthritis progression requires some explanation. Progress is the opposite of what we observe when rheumatoid disease evolves. It is the disease that progresses, not the patient. So the advancement of the disease actually leads to the worsening of the patient’s health. The other obvious problem with the term...Continue reading      6 Comments » Read more
Rheumatoid disease / rheumatoid arthritis pain

Rheumatoid Arthritis Pain Persists

Kelly O'Neill 4 Comments , ,
This is Part 3 of a series on Rheumatoid Disease / Rheumatoid Arthritis pain. In Part 1 we looked at the role of pain in the disease. Part 2 examines a popular study on Remaining Pain and poses 12 reasons that current explanations for Remaining Pain are wrong. In Part 3, we’ll see that the...Continue reading      4 Comments » Read more
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