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Link between Autoimmunity and Environmental Exposure Needs Further Research

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Rheumatology needs further cost-effective and validated methods to track the connection between environmental exposure and autoimmune diseases, including research on phenotypes, genotypes, the synergy between multiple infectious and noninfectious exposures, the timing of exposure, and the mechanisms involved, according to presenters of “Impact of Environmental Health on Autoimmunity,” a session here at the 2011 ACR/ARHP Annual Scientific Meeting held in Chicago in November 2011.

A Patient’s Perspective on RA

Lisa C. Glavish  |  

I was diagnosed in April 2010, at 44 years old, with seropositive RA; the disease rapidly turned my life upside down.

Letter: RA Approval for IL-1Ra

William Arend, MD  |  

Investors convinced the executives of Synergen that they needed to evaluate IL-1Ra for a disease with a more rapid outcome. RA studies were too slow to yield a quick profit. Thus, they picked sepsis syndrome.

Give Rheumatology Patients a Helping Hand

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Nearly 10 million Americans suffer from carpal tunnel syndrome, a condition that disables a key nerve in the wrist resulting in numbness, tingling, weakness, and loss of function in the hands and wrist. These symptoms are similar to those of rheumatoid arthritis and other rheumatic conditions, and it is important that patients know the difference.