Regular Updates on the Many Forms of Arthritis
Researchers from Spain and Portugal have found that fibromyalgia patients experience significant pain relief when they get regular exercise in a heated pool. Current treatments include pain relief medications, exercise, relaxation therapy and low-dose antidepressants.
The study participants included 33 women with fibromyalgia. 17 of them had supervised 1-hour exercise sessions 3 times a week in [...]
Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc, has been conducting a clinical trial of its experimental gout treatment drug Puricase. Puricase is intended for use in patients that have not had success in treatment of their gout with other therapies.
The trial included 212 patients, of which 158 completed the randomized trial. The company reported that 19 of the patients [...]
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has published a new study on the incidence of depression among rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. The study, titled “Communication about Depression during Rheumatoid Arthritis Patient Visits” was published in the February issue of Arthritis Care & Research.
200 arthritis patients from 4 rheumatology clinics with 8 participating doctors [...]
A 2 year study conducted by Dutch researchers has concluded that glucosamine does not provide any improvement on pain, function or disease progression in patients with hip osteoarthritis.
222 people were involved in the study conducted by Dr. Rianne M. Rozendaal at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Half of them were randomly assigned [...]
The Arthritis Foundation recently came out with its list of the top 10 arthritis events for the year 2007. This series will focus on those events.
#1: Passage of FDA Legislation on Drug Regulation and Safety
The Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007 was signed into law by President Bush in September. The result [...]
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