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Adding RA to the SSD Compassion Allowances List?

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Hearings receive testimony on RA & other autoimmune diseases Hearings were held yesterday, March 16th, about adding some autoimmune diseases to a list of conditions deemed disabling enough to be given specific consideration and hopefully quicker Social Security Disability approval. The list, called the Compassionate Allowances List currently includes 88 conditions. This week’s hearing was the 7th...Continue reading      26 Comments » Read more

Alice Goes to Jacksonville: Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media

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What’s the Mayo Clinic Social Media Health Network? I joked a lot about Alice in Wonderland this week as Katie Beth and I traveled to Jacksonville for the first meeting of the Advisory Board for the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media (MCCSM). It was combined with a conference for members of Mayo Clinic’s new Social...Continue reading      11 Comments » Read more

The Isolation of RA Pain: Short Poem Video

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Most people with RA talk about how difficult it is to explain RA pain to others. It’s frustrating to be repeatedly told that it isn’t or shouldn’t be so bad. Just today, a woman I met couldn’t wait to tell me about her friend with RA who’s able to do so much more than I...Continue reading      12 Comments » Read more

The Next Three Days: a Movie Review with a Twist

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The movie: The Next Three Days Last night we watched the movie The Next Three Days starring Russell Crowe (John) & Elizabeth Banks (Lara) about a professional woman with diabetes who is accused of murder.  Lara loses every appeal and her husband John becomes desperate while watching his wife and their young son Luke struggle to...Continue reading      5 Comments » Read more

Tofacitinib / CP-690550 aka Tasocitinib Succeeds in Pfizer’s 2nd Phase 3 Trial

Kelly Young 14 Comments , ,
A new name and new milestone for tofacitinib Pfizer announced Friday that CP-690550 tofacitinib (formerly tasocitinib) met its goals in its second phase three clinical trial for moderate to severe Rheumatoid Arthritis. Tofacitinib is a JAK 3 inhibitor, an oral treatment for RA with a different approach than current Biologic RA treatments. According to Pfizer, over 4,000...Continue reading      14 Comments » Read more

Susceptibility for Rheumatoid Arthritis Acquired via Microchimerism?

Kelly Young 24 Comments ,
Women with RA ask why it’s so common to acquire severe Rheumatoid Arthritis after pregnancy the way I did. I don’t blame my son since my symptoms went back years, but these studies are fascinating… Rheumatoid Arthritis HLA shared epitope may be acquired in pregnancy The current issue of Arthritis and Rheumatism brings a study which concludes...Continue reading      24 Comments » Read more

Three Things Not to Say about Plagiarism to a Blogger

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1) Oh, that’s just flattery, they like your writing. 2) Well, at least the message is getting out. 3) Don’t say anything because that will make you look bad. All of these have been said to me. And I’m not buying it. Click image to enlarge. My regular followers know that for I’ve been typing away about Rheumatoid Arthritis on...Continue reading      55 Comments » Read more

Predicting Rheumatoid Arthritis

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Two new studies indicate that predicting Rheumatoid Arthritis disease activity might be within the realm of possibility. I think Rheumatoid Arthritis lives secretly within the bodies of many victims for years, like a haunting. Invisible activity in a person's cells precedes diagnosis and many patients’ onset stories tell of years of suspicious symptoms. New studies give hope of...Continue reading      27 Comments » Read more

Resistance to Rheumatology Treatment: Blog Carnival #3

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Would anyone oppose rheumatological treatment? A recent column in a California newspaper prompted a response from rheumatology patients and parents of juvenile rheumatology patients. There are 61 comments already on my post Don’t Take Those Meds for RA or Juvenile Arthritis, plus a handful of comments on the original article. Danielle, a mom who writes about...Continue reading      9 Comments » Read more

Fighting Rheumatoid Arthritis Depression

Kelly Young 42 Comments ,
Often, I get letters from Rheumatoid Arthritis patients struggling with depression. I always encourage them to consider the options of counseling or medication since there’s no way to know how serious their depression may be. It’s heartbreaking. We hope that most of the time we can avoid serious depression, but patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis or...Continue reading      42 Comments » Read more
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