When you deal with the physical and emotional pain of arthritis, it can be difficult to look on the bright side of a negative situation. However, as with any journey, there are always lessons to be learned if you look hard enough. We asked the...
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is an inflammatory disorder that often begins with swollen, warm and painful joints. In patients with JIA, their joints tend to "flare" up with inflammation and then subside. These flares cause aching joints on one or both sides of the body....
Dear ANRF partner! The first issue of our e-newsletter, The ANRF Chronicle, is dedicated to the Foundation’s many award recipients. I want their faces to become familiar faces and their names to be household names for these are the change makers of tomorrow! Every year, we award...
Arthritis National Research Foundation (ANRF) is honored to announce it has awarded $1.6 million in arthritis research grants. The amount represents the largest commitment to arthritis research to date ensuring that ANRF maintains it's mission of funding research to cure arthritis. ANRF continues to fund...
The Foundation’s annual event at the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) conference, ANRF Social, was held in Chicago on Monday October 22nd. Guests in attendance had the opportunity to meet key opinion leaders in Arthritis and Rheumatology research in a relaxed, friendly atmosphere. A unique feature...
An estimated 30 million Americans suffer from osteoarthritis (OA), the leading cause of chronic disability in older adults. Nearly half of all adults over the age of 65 have been affected by the development of osteoarthritis, a degenerative joint disease. OA creates a painful inflammatory response...
Knee injuries are painful, debilitating and extremely common. A sudden twist of the knee can tear the cartilage that cushions and stabilizes the joint. Knee injuries often predict the development of osteoarthritis (OA). Even when an injury is surgically repaired, damage to cartilage triggers a...
Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) affects 1.5 million Americans and some of those are teachers, like myself, who are teaching with rheumatoid arthritis. Let me give you a little background; my name is Tiffany and I’ve been teaching high school for seven years and I was diagnosed...
The annual Meet the Scientists event was held on March 28, 2018 in Newport Beach, California. The event gave donors the opportunity to meet with ANRF-funded researchers working towards a cure for arthritis and other related autoimmune diseases. This year’s event was filled to the...
When osteoarthritis (OA) strikes, pain flashes to sensory receptors, unleashing tiny electrical pulses that race up the spinal cord to the brain. Neurons, or specialized nerve cells, release chemical messengers that deliver pain signals from arthritic joints to the sensory network. Now a new generation of...