Rheumatology

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• Is There A Blood Test For Rheumatoid Arthritis?

  
  Healthy Living Times — Authority: 138
  Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most common inflammatory form of arthritis. It affects roughly 2 million Americans. It is a chronic, systemic, autoimmune disorder for which there is no known cure. However, there are very effective medicine regimens that can control the disease and get it into remission. The major ...
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• Chicken Capsules Good For Aching Joints

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 700
  Chicken collagen can provide relief from rheumatoid arthritis (RA) symptoms. A randomised, controlled trial, published in BioMed Centrals open access journal Arthritis Research & Therapy, has found that Chicken type II collagen (CCII), a protein extracted from the cartilage of chicken breast, is a safe and ...
  19 hours ago

• Stroke and heart disease trigger identified

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, Dec 1 (ANI): Scientists from Imperial College London have identified a molecule that triggers damage in arteries, which causes heart attacks and strokes.They hope that the condition could potentially be treated by blocking the molecule that triggers the damage.The trigger identified in the research is a ...
  23 hours ago

• ArGentis Acquires Rights To Rheumatoid Arthritis Therapy Entering Phase I Clinical Trial

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 700
  arGentis Pharmaceuticals, LLC announced that it will collaborate with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center of Memphis (VAMC) to initiate the first human clinical evaluation of an oral altered peptide ligand (APL), ARG301, in a Phase I study of Rheumatoid ...
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• Higher Risk Of Knee Arthritis Linked To Too Much Exercise

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 700
  A new study by radiologists found that middle-aged men and women who do lots of exercise, and particularly high impact activities like running and jumping, may be unknowingly causing damage to their knees and putting themselves at greater risk of developing osteoarthritis.
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• Given A Choice, Arthritis Patients Take More Conservative Clinical Approach

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 700
  A recent study suggests that increasing patient responsibility for making medical decisions may decrease their willingness to accept risky treatment options. Details of this proof-of-concept study appear in the December issue of Arthritis Care & Research, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the ...
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• More Rural Medicare Beneficiaries Elect Joint Replacement Surgery Than Urban Recipients

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 700
  Southern Illinois University researchers determined Medicare beneficiaries living in rural areas were 27% more likely than urban recipients to have total knee or hip replacement surgeries. Researchers found women were more likely than men to undergo total joint replacement surgeries.
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• Osteoarthritis Increases Aggregate Health Care Expenditures By $186 Billion Annually

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 700
  Osteoarthritis (OA), a highly prevalent disease, raised aggregate annual medical care expenditures in the U.S. by $185.5 billion according to researchers from Stony Brook University. Insurers footed $149.4 billion of the total medical spend and out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures were $36.1 billion (2007 dollars).
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• Targeted Drug-delivery Approaches By Nanoparticulate Carriers In The Therapy Of Inflammatory Diseases

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 700
  Limitations in therapy induced by adverse effects due to unselective drug availability and therefore the use of potentially too high doses are a common problem. One prominent example for this dilemma are inflammatory diseases.
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• Doha: Rheumatologist

  
  International Jobs for Physicians, Nurses and Allied Health - atlasmed.com — Authority: 146
  Our client is a modern 250 bed state of the art hospital in Doha Qatar. The hospital has a vacancy for a Consultant Rheumatology When required – Immediate or latest by January 2010  Qualification – American Board in Internal Medicine, or Royal College Degree before 1996 or after 1996 with CCST, or German ...
  3 days ago

• Adeona Announces Publication Of Results Of 160 Patient Phase 2 Clinical Trial Of Oral DnaJP1 For Rheumatoid Arthritis

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 700
  Adeona Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (AMEX: AEN) announced the publication in the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism of results of a 160-patient, six-month, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 2 clinical trial using the companys oral dnaJP1 for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The results of the study were ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is There A Blood Test For Rheumatoid Arthritis?

  
  Healthy Living Times — Authority: 138
  Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most common inflammatory form of arthritis. It affects roughly 2 million Americans. It is a chronic, systemic, autoimmune disorder for which there is no known cure. However, there are very effective medicine regimens that can control the disease and get it into remission. The major ...
  2 weeks ago

• Alder Rides Momentum of $1B Deal, Aims to Give Amgen and Abbott a Run for Their Money

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 702
  Biotech , deals , people Luke Timmerman wrote: Alder Biopharmaceuticals keeps such a low profile that even after five years in business, few people in Seattle biotech know who they are. That changed yesterday as the private Bothell, WA-based company burst onto the local, and national, biotech scene by ...
  3 weeks ago

• Judgement In Favour Of NICE On Judicial Review Of Abatacept For Rheumatoid Arthritis Guidance

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 700
  The High Court has ruled in favour of NICE by dismissing the application from Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS), the manufacturer of abatacept, for a judicial review of the NICE guidance on the use of abatacept for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. In April 2008, NICE published final guidance which did not recommend ...
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• Alder Scores Deal With Bristol-Myers Potentially Worth $1 Billion

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 702
  Biotech , deals , Rheumatoid Arthritis Luke Timmerman wrote: Alder Biopharmaceuticals has just struck one of the biggest biotech partnerships of the year, both in the Seattle area and nationally. The Bothell, WA-based developer of faster and cheaper technology for making antibody drugs has formed a ...
  3 weeks ago

• MorphoSys Receives Regulatory Approval To Start Phase 1b/2a Clinical Trial For MOR103 Program

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 700
  Germanys Paul-Ehrlich-Institute Approves Clinical Trial in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients MorphoSys AG (FSE: MOR; Prime Standard Segment, TecDAX) announced today that it has received clearance from Germanys Paul-Ehrlich-Institute as well as a positive opinion from the ethics committees in Germany
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• What’s The Most Expensive Medical Condition?

  
  Better Health — Authority: 554
  What medical condition costs the U.S. Health system the most in disability and overall costs? If you said heart disease or cancer or pulmonary disease you would be wrong! I would have said one of those myself. The answer…slow drumroll….is musculoskeletal disease . Yes, 50% of the adult population reported ...
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• Link Between Childhood Physical Abuse And Arthritis

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 700
  Adults who had experienced physical abuse as children have 56 per cent higher odds of osteoarthritis compared to those who have not been abused, according to a new study by University of Toronto researchers. University of Toronto researchers investigated the relationship between self-reported childhood physical ...
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• New & Interesting (2 November 2009)

  
  On The Wards — Authority: 92
  The “New & Interesting” series is a biweekly compilation of select research findings, news articles, and random tidbits in bullet-point format. The entries are highly abbreviated, but provide links to the original articles or abstracts if you desire to read further.General ArticlesVideo games may cause kids to ...
  4 weeks ago

• Second Belimumab Trial Delivers, Sort Of

  
  Pathophilia — Authority: 467
  Another phase 3 trial of belimumab (Benlysta; Human Genome Sciences/GSK) in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) has met its primary endpoint, according to a company press release. These data complement results of a previous phase 3 study, BLISS-52,...
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