Decreasing disease activity in people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has long been the goal of medical treatment. But measuring when a person has met their goal — when symptoms are alleviated or at a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN DIEGO — The official EULAR definition of difficult-to-treat rheumatoid arthritis does not fully account for ...

Everyone has faced unique challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, but for those with chronic illness, there are especially tough obstacles to overcome. Here's what it's been like for several real ...

Do you know there are three steps to preventing degenerative arthritis? First, let me define arthritis: Arthritis is inflammation of a joint. “Arth-” stands for joint; “-itis” stands for inflammation.

Based on an analysis of critical transcription factors, researchers have stratified rheumatoid arthritis (RA) into two subtypes where gene expression was driven by RAR-α or TGF-β, respectively. The ...

New research reports that ultrasonography predicts absence of clinical flare following discontinuation of biologic therapy in patients with rheumatoid arthritis in clinical remission. Other studies ...

'Sugar and spice and everything nice — that's what little girls are made of." So goes the familiar refrain from a nursery rhyme most of us recall from childhood. But the catchy little poem doesn't ...