Low awareness of how arthritis affects young people leaves thousands of children without appropriate support.
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Fish oil has been promised to provide all sorts of health benefits – from boosting our heart health, protecting our brain and easing arthritis. Here’s how the claims stack up for fish and supplements.
In the short-term, inflammation is a sign your body is healing. But persistent levels of inflammation in blood and tissue, called ‘inflammaging’, is linked to disease. Diet might help.
As tempting as it is, it is not possible to “supplement” oneself out of a bad lifestyle.
A new species of bacteria that doesn’t normally live in the gut may trigger an immune response so strong that it spreads to the joints.
COVID-19 has taken away so much. An immunology researcher describes the good it may leave behind.
Exercise – alongside standard treatments – may help improve strength and flexibility, and other symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis.
‘Orphan drugs’ with high price points are being tested as treatments for COVID-19. There’s a better way to spur low-cost innovation for new drugs.
Antibodies that go rogue and attack healthy tissue identified in patients with severe COVID.
About one in 100 people have rheumatoid arthritis, a painful condition of the joints where the body mistakenly attacks itself.
Certain autoimmune disorders are linked to psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia. But some appear to be protective.
The risk of heart attack and stroke is increased for women with rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis, and for men with psoriasis.
Certain mechanisms that occur as a result of an immune response during an illness in pregnancy could impact a child’s brain development. And more studies are showing a relationship between the two.
Many people with moderate to severe chronic pain find it difficult to move around. By contrast, HIV-positive people who had chronic pain are still active.
Methotrexate is a drug used for rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis and inflammatory bowel disease. It is taken on just one day a week. Accidental daily dosing can cause life-threatening toxicity.
People who have rheumatoid arthritis often suffer from depression as well. For poor people this is often worse because they cut off their social networks.
Cartilage was thought to be impenetrable – until now.
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Senior Research Fellow; Rheumatology Research Group, Centre for Inflammatory Diseases, Monash University
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Professor and Clinical Psychologist, Michael Crouch Chair in Child and Youth Mental Health, University of Sydney
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Muirhead Chair of Medicine and Director of Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow
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Rheumatologist, University of Cape Town
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Queen Mary University of London
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Lecturer in Pharmacy, University of Sydney
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Professor of Philosophy, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Lecturer in the School of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
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PhD Candidate, University of Sydney
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Professor, University of Sydney
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Research Fellow, National Centre for Population Health & Well-being Research, Swansea University
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Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow & Honorary Lecturer, King's College London
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Senior Lecturer in Immunology, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Rheumatologist, Professor/Director Monash Medical Course/ Deputy Dean Health Faculty, Monash University
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Professor, University of Pretoria
