Several community members mentioned items like compression gloves and socks, heating pads, and massage devices. A wide ...

For many people, holiday plans include some kind of travel. In addition to the ordinary stress and chaos of travel, many of us with rheumatoid arthritis also need to figure out how to travel with ...

Scientists called epidemiologists study patterns of how diseases affect groups of people. For instance, epidemiologists are often called in to find out why an outbreak of a viral infection happens in ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an inflammatory disease. If you’re one of the 1.5 million American adults with RA, you know that what you eat might affect how often or how extreme flare-ups are. Try ...

As many as a third of people with rheumatoid arthritis/rheumatoid disease (RA/RD) are diagnosed with what is called seronegative rheumatoid arthritis. 1 This means that rheumatoid factor is not ...

"I Don't Drink Coffee. Should I Start?" is the headline of an article I just read in The New York Times' "Health" section, written by a non-coffee drinker who is wondering if he should start guzzling ...

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If you have recently been referred to a rheumatologist, or if you have been reading up on rheumatoid arthritis and it seems that your symptoms fit with this diagnosis, you likely have a lot of ...

RA causes chronic inflammation in the joints, and the hands and wrists are commonly affected. The joints in the wrist may be one of the first symptoms of RA. About 50 percent of people with RA have ...

We’ve all been in those situations where someone shares with us that they have cancer, are in need of surgery, or have another serious health condition, and we’re left wondering what the right thing ...

About 3 years ago, my voice started getting hoarse now and then. I’d be talking to someone, just minding my own beeswax and boom — suddenly, I was croaking. It felt like there was something small or ...

Discover the personal challenges of finding pain relief while living with RA, fibromyalgia, and other autoimmune conditions.