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Rheumatoid Arthritis: Treatments
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This book teaches effective strategies and techniques for improving quality of life for both the person with rheumatoid arthritis and their family. Written by a psychologist, the book discusses the management of stress, pain, emotions, and relationships, as well as the treatment of the condition. Includes a chapter on living with someone with rheumatoid arthritis. NOTE: Published in 1988 the medication section is dated.
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Researchers are ... uncovering the complex relationships between the hormonal, nervous, and immune systems in rheumatoid arthritis. For example, they are exploring whether and how the normal changes in the levels of naturally produced steroid hormones (such as estrogen and testosterone) during a person's lifetime may be related to the development, improvement, or flares of the disease. Scientists also are researching how these systems interact with environmental and genetic factors. The results of this research may suggest new treatment strategies.
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Inhibiting STAT4 can prevent or ameliorate arthritis in animal models of rheumatoid arthritis, suggesting that STAT4 could be a target for new therapies. The discovery of STAT4 can ultimately help scientists unravel the triggers for the disease, help in the development of a test to confirm a diagnosis and perhaps even help predict who will respond to treatments.
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Patients with osteoarthritis (OA) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) face different treatment options and determining which ones to try can be confusing. Two new studies published in the July 2007 issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism (http://www.interscience.wiley. [click link for full article] ...more
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REMICADE is approved to treat such indications as rheumatoid arthritis, early rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, Crohn's disease, ankylosing spondylitis, plaque psoriasis and ulcerative colitis. Golimumab is currently in Phase 3 trials for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis and is being investigated for administration by either monthly subcutaneous injection or every 12-week intravenous (IV) infusion. The companies anticipate filing applications with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency in 2008 seeking approval for golimumab in these therapeutic areas.
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Eruc Blay in Dietary treatment of rheumatoid arthritis reports the application of the dietary advice of wheat exclusion and fresh food diet has put his rheumatoid arthritis into remission. The book that he read was 'A Doctor's Proven New Home Cure for Arthritis' by Giraud Campbell. [now in archive.org]
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