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RA Research, Resources, and Rheumatology

Weight of Patient Reported Outcome Measures on Diagnosis & Treatment of RA

Kelly Young 19 Comments ,
Rheumatoid Arthritis Is the Only Major Disease in Which the Patient Largely Informs the Doctor A funny thing happened while we were at a poster session last week at ACR. The Georgia World Congress Center is like three 4-story shopping malls with a couple of theaters and secondary schools thrown in – it’s big. So, we...Continue reading      19 Comments » Read more

Predictors of Pain in DAS28 Remission

Kelly Young 19 Comments , ,
RA pain with so-called clinical remission is common When I tried to find a new rheumatologist in the spring of 2009, I learned all about clinical remission. The Good Doctors Treat Patients video tells the story of 1 of 3 doctors I saw at the time. Like the nursery rhyme, it was “Same song, second verse,...Continue reading      19 Comments » Read more

American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting 2010

Kelly Young 29 Comments , ,
What’s the American College of Rheumatology? The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) is an organization of doctors wanting to learn the latest research in rheumatology or who contribute to that research. The better rheumatologists around the world attend the ACR’s annual Scientific Meeting or are members of ACR. (Because of expense and busy practice, many members attend...Continue reading      29 Comments » Read more

Rheumatoid Arthritis Genetic Discoveries

Kelly Young 24 Comments ,
I got a link to a short interview called GeneTalk with 23andMe: Rheumatoid Arthritis with a key researcher on RA and genetics. Even though it was just an overview, the topics were fascinating. Free sign up may be required to read the full article, but I’ll quote it directly here. Are there genes that bring a...Continue reading      24 Comments » Read more

Rheumatoid Arthritis Factsheets for Printing!

Kelly Young 12 Comments ,
This is something people have asked me to do for a long time. I’ve created these two pdf factsheets about RA for our readers to print! Rheumatoid Arthritis factsheet about the RA Warrior You can print this factsheet when you want to tell others about this website and our community here. All you have to do is...Continue reading      12 Comments » Read more

Rheumatoid Arthritis News Articles, Vol. 3: Syk inhibitor, CVD Risk & Diabetes Link

Kelly Young 17 Comments , ,
3 hot Rheumatoid Arthritis news articles: RA pill, cardiovascular risk guidelines & more! 1 - An oral Spleen tyrosine kinase (Syk) inhibitor for Rheumatoid Arthritis A recently published study evaluated the effectiveness and safety of a pill being called R788 for the treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis. R788 inhibits Spleen tyrosine kinase (Syk), an important immune signaling modulator,...Continue reading      17 Comments » Read more

The Future: Predicting Rheumatoid Arthritis Severity

Kelly Young 36 Comments ,
The future of RA testing... Predicting Rheumatoid Arthritis is still impossible, but times are changing Once upon a time, there was the Rheumatoid factor. Rheumatology could hope that the Rheumatoid factor (Rf) would be to Rheumatoid Arthritis what glucose measurement is to diabetes. But it was not so – neither for diagnosis nor for disease management. About...Continue reading      36 Comments » Read more

Rheumatoid Arthritis Statistics

Kelly Young 14 Comments , ,
Some interesting numbers came across my screen in the last couple of days. I started wondering what they would look like along side of one another. Some Rheumatoid Arthritis statistics are better than others Recent Rheumatoid Arthritis statistics now estimate that a larger number of people have RA than expected: about 1.5 million in the US. Yesterday was...Continue reading      14 Comments » Read more

New Criteria for Rheumatoid Arthritis

Kelly Young 11 Comments ,
New criteria for studying Rheumatoid Arthritis Last October at their convention, the American College of Rheumatology unveiled the revised criteria for classification of Rheumatoid Arthritis (for more detail on how the point system works, please click that link). This month, in coordination with the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR), they have announced that the new guidelines have...Continue reading      11 Comments » Read more

The Mortality Dragon: Do Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Have to Die Early?

Kelly Young 15 Comments ,
Reasons for the high mortality rate with Rheumatoid Arthritis This is not a morbid post. If we’re going to fight a dragon, we need to know about the dragon. Why do Rheumatoid Arthritis patients have such a high mortality rate? Some of you have probably heard me speculate about mortality and RA in response to questions....Continue reading      15 Comments » Read more

Incidence of Rheumatoid Arthritis Increasing, in Women Especially

Kelly Young 18 Comments , ,
Recent study finds more Rheumatoid Arthritis – Women Harder Hit Science Daily reported this spring that Mayo researchers found an increased incidence of Rheumatoid Arthritis, especially in women. “Between 1 and 2 million Americans suffer the effects of RA, a chronic inflammatory disease that targets joints and which contributes to work-related disability, increased morbidity, and shortened...Continue reading      18 Comments » Read more

Rheumatoid Arthritis Muscle Wasting: Rheumatoid Cachexia

Kelly Young 62 Comments , , ,
Wasting time on Rheumatoid Arthritis muscle wasting? Rheumatoid Arthritis is famous for bone erosions and joint deformity. That’s bad enough, but RA doesn’t stop there. Rheumatoid Arthritis is a systemic disease which can affect all organs and systems in the body. One of the first RA symptoms I experienced was extreme weakness in muscles and tendons. As...Continue reading      62 Comments » Read more
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