Sixty-nine-year-old Mary Anne Laporte was diagnosed with knee arthritis 15 years ago. For years, she kept the pain under control with steroid injections and physical therapy, but when she began ...
According to researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, women who used an estrogen-containing contraceptive for longer than seven years had a nearly 20% decreased risk of the most common ...
Types include rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease, and some thyroid conditions. Your immune system has the job of protecting you from diseases and infections. When it senses these germs ...
Unlike adult rheumatoid arthritis, which is ongoing (chronic) and lasts a lifetime, children often outgrow JIA. But the disease can affect bone development in a growing child. There are several types ...
Hydrotherapy is a type of water therapy that, combined with medication, can benefit people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA ... the edge of the pool with one hand for support.