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Possible rheumatoid treatment breakthrough
Thioredoxin is a naturally occurring protein. Its existence has been known to be secreted by the body to counter stressful chemical reactions that occur with inflammation. What wasn’t known about thioredoxin is its ability to open ion channels, which allow the movement of ions. Ions are electrically charged atoms across a cell’s membrane that carries out a [...]
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Mayo rheumatologist researcher Kevin Moder, M.D., led an investigative team for alternate ways to reduce inflammation flare ups in patients with Lupus. The disease causes inflammation of connective tissues that can involve the skin, joints, and kidneys. The cause is unknown. The researchers evaluated mycophenolate mofetil (MMF), an immunosuppressive drug used in organ transplant cases. [...]
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Arthritis and Lupus Rheumatoid arthritis medications most effective when combined
A new report funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), compares the benefits and harms of 3 classes of medications: Synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs), which includes hydroxychloroquine, leflunomide, methotrexate, and sulfasalzine. Biologic DMARDs, which inclues abatacept, adalimumab, anakinra, etanercept, infliximab, and rituximab. And corticosteroids, including drugs such as predinsone. The report [...]
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Two separate rheumatoid arthritis research groups have similar results
Researchers seek to identify the genes that make us susceptible to disease and illness. In two independent research projects, that searched the entire human genome for variants that increase risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), had remarkably similar results. The research was conducted at the Broad Institute of Harvard, in association with, Brigham and Woman’s Hospital in the [...]
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Arthritis and Lupus Gold paves way for safer rheumatoid arthritis treatment
Since the early 1900s gold salts have been used to ease the pain and swelling of rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory diseases. Scientists never understood why gold worked in the treatment for arthritis and recently has been replaced by faster acting methotrexate. Now gold treatment is considered a last resort. Gold treatment take months to [...]
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Arthritis and Lupus 2 arthritis related genes discovered
Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is an inflammatory arthritis disease that strikes patients in their teens, 20s, or 30s. It can cause a complete fusion of the spine, leaving patients unable to straighten and bend. For the past 30 years the only screening test for AS was the gene HLA-B27, then only 40% of the time AS cases [...]
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Arthritis research without the use of laboratory animals
At some point, medical research often involves laboratory animals. Researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia’s Comparative Orthopedic Laboratory have found a way to minimize the use of laboratory animals when it comes to arthritis research. The Mizzou researchers have developed an in vitro model using small sections of joint capsule and cartilage that are typically [...]
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Arthritis and Lupus Swedish & American research groups independently find new rheumatoid arthritis gene
An estimated 2.1 million Americans are afflicted with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a chronic and debilitating inflammatory disease of the joints. American and Swedish researchers used blood samples of rheumatoid arthritis patients, along with blood samples from healthy patients, to compare DNA in search of small differences in the genetic code. Independently, both groups were led [...]
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Arthritis and Lupus A gene found to be common among Rheumatoid Arthritis and Lupus patients
Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) and Lupus have long been suspected to have a common genetic component. Narrowing the field of possibilities to just one likely candidate has taken researchers years to accomplish. The suspected gene is STAT4, but it is too early to tell what impact it will have in therapy for both diseases. This is [...]
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Australia’s equivalent of FDA (TGA) bans Novartis’ Lumiracoxib
Novartis is in the process of recruiting subjects for clinical trials for the drug Lumiracoxib. The clinical trials are to compare the effects of Lumiracoxib, ibuprofen, and placebo on a 24-hour blood pressure profile and on urinary excretions (of eicosanoids in controlled hypertensive) in patients who have osteoarthritis. Meanwhile, Australia’s equivalent of the FDA, the Therapeutic [...]
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