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Tag: arthritis
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Treating inflammatory arthritis with hydrogel
To better manage inflammatory arthritis, bioengineers and physicians have developed a delivery system for getting anti-inflammatory therapies to the sites where they are needed most.
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Hip replacement needed a ‘light bulb moment.’ Getting there was painful.
In his new book, “Vanishing Bone,” Harvard surgeon William Harris described setbacks on the path to breakthrough collaboration that corrected a major problem in hip replacement surgery.
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Bad knees through the ages
A new Harvard study is the first to definitively show that the prevalence of knee osteoarthritis has dramatically increased in recent decades.
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New insight on height, arthritis
New findings point to a surprising link between a genetic variant that favors shortness and an increased risk of osteoarthritis.
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Progress against melanoma
Harvard stem cell researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston have taken two important steps toward development of a new way of treating melanoma, the most virulent form of skin cancer.
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Rare variants in gene coding may up risk of autoimmune disorders
Rare variants in the gene coding of an enzyme that controls the activity of a key immune cell occur more often in people with autoimmune disorders like rheumatoid arthritis and type 1 diabetes, Harvard researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital found in a multi-institutional study. The researchers’ report, published in the journal Nature, identifies a pathway…
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Researchers track down rheumatoid arthritis gene
Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have discovered a gene involved in rheumatoid arthritis, a painful autoimmune disease that affects 2.1 million Americans and can destroy cartilage and bone within the afflicted joint. In a study led by Robert Plenge, an instructor in medicine at Harvard…
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HMS researchers find how gold fights arthritis
Gold compounds have been used for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases for more than 75 years, but, until now, how the metals work has been a mystery. Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers report in the Feb. 27 issue of Nature Chemical Biology that special forms of gold, platinum, and other classes…
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How gold and other medicinal metals function against rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases
Gold compounds have been used for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases for more than 75 years, but until now, how the metals work has been a mystery. Harvard Medical School researchers report in the Feb. 27, 2006 issue of Nature Chemical Biology that special forms of gold, platinum, and other classes…
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Finding challenges predominant theory that arthritis prevents bone loss
For more than 30 years, it has been accepted in the medical community that women with arthritis are actually much less likely to experience accelerated bone loss. New findings, outlined in the December 2003 issue of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, show a direct relationship between the diseases, potentially altering how this high-risk…
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Replacing joints early may be better than waiting for some osteoarthritis sufferers
In a study, scientists from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Toronto Western Hospital followed the progress of patients who opted to have joint replacement surgery. They found that those patients who had postponed having the surgery the longest — and therefore were experiencing the most pain and loss of joint function — also experienced…