Being diagnosed with a rheumatic disease is a life-altering experience that can feel overwhelming and intimidating. Rheumatic ...

Rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis cause pain and joint damage, but are very different diseases. Learn about their differences, plus a natural remedy for pain relief.

Our training program boasts one of the nation's leading research programs with groundbreaking work in arthritis, musculoskeletal diseases, and autoimmunity. Over the past five years, we’ve created a ...

Although the list of nonoccupational, noninfectious agents that could be involved in the development of rheumatic diseases is large, surprisingly few controlled epidemiologic studies have been ...

How Does Chemotherapy Treat Inflammatory and Autoimmune Diseases? In many rheumatic diseases, inflammation causes damage to parts of the body; for example - causing painful joints as in rheumatoid ...

Postmenopausal women often have rheumatic symptoms and disorders unrelated to AI therapy, [6,7] so one must be wary of attributing causation from mere presence. Still, the current presumptive ...

There are general risk factors for patients with rheumatic disease developing interstitial lung disease, but there are also disease-specific risk factors depending on which rheumatic disease they ...

THE relation between the thyroid gland and rheumatic disorders has long excited interest. 1–7 In particular, an association between some of the connective-tissue diseases and Hashimoto's ...

INTEREST in the pathophysiology of the systemic rheumatic diseases has been revitalized by the discovery of the serum factors that produce the L.E. cell in disseminated lupus erythematosus and the ...