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Rheumatoid Arthritis CRP Levels

Rheumatoid Arthritis CRP Levels

Kelly Young 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 Young 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

Remaining Pain in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Kelly Young 11 Comments , ,
Studying Remaining Pain In part one of this series on the role of pain in rheumatoid arthritis / disease, we learned that “Remaining pain” is a term for joint pain that patients experience despite treatment with DMARDs like methotrexate or Enbrel. Today we discuss a large study about Remaining Pain in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) / rheumatoid disease...Continue reading      11 Comments » Read more
Role of Pain in Rheumatoid Arthritis

The Role of Pain in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Kelly Young 25 Comments ,
This is Part 1 in a series on the role of pain in rheumatoid arthritis / disease. What role does pain play in RA diagnosis? In disease assessment? In disease treatment? Let’s start with a history lesson… 2 kinds of medicines for Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) In 2009, we discussed the need to both treat rheumatoid disease and...Continue reading      25 Comments » Read more
Curing rheumatoid arthritis in mice and men

Curing Rheumatoid Arthritis in Mice and Men

Kelly Young 6 Comments ,
Are we curing rheumatoid arthritis in mice? This post is in response to a comment from Robert about a new way for curing rheumatoid arthritis. He wrote: “A university in Switzerland has cured RA in mice, as of August 2014. Clinical trials in humans were due to start this year. Not a word since. [Link to...Continue reading      6 Comments » Read more
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