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.
Exercising regularly, and spending time outdoors can improve your health.
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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.
Immunologists are studying how the SARS-CoV-2 virus interacts with antibodies in the immune system.
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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 used for arthritis, psoriasis, inflammatory bowel disease and cancer.
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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 suffering from rheumatoid arthritis have poor control over their painful, swollen joints and face progressive disability.
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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.
“Arthritis is for old people, right?” This is an outdated view of a spectrum of diseases that affect people of all ages in the population. In the past decade, there has been a revolution in the understanding…