Tag: Brian S. DeDecker

  • Campus & Community

    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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  • Health

    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…

    2–3 minutes