For many with chronic conditions like arthritis, maintaining a career can be challenging, with the condition making certain aspects of your job more difficult. However, there are a number of ways to alter your approach to working and ensure that work remains feasible. Work is,...
Mohamed Khass, PhD, is a post-doctoral fellow in the Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology at the University of Alabama. A strong research background in numerous areas including pharmacology, biochemistry, genetics, microbiology and immunology has not only created a researcher capable of unique insights from...
Dr. Michael Waterfield, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Francisco. During his first year as an ANRF scholar, Dr. Waterfield successfully made inroads into discovering potential means of blocking inflammation in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis. Based on this he was...
The spleen houses different immune cells that are primed to be released if infection or damage in the body occurs. Upon detection of infection or damage, cells in the spleen are activated resulting in a variety of responses including cytokine secretion. Cytokines are small proteins...
Dr. Michael Waterfield, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Francisco. During his first year as an ANRF scholar, Dr. Waterfield successfully made inroads into discovering potential means of blocking inflammation in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis. Based on this, he was...
As an autoimmune patient, you have likely seen numerous doctors and specialists, but you may not have considered the benefits of a sleep specialist. Often, people in pain have trouble sleeping but cannot pinpoint whether the pain is contributing to a lack of sleep or...
Autoimmune diseases occur when something goes awry with how our immune system is functioning. Your immune system consists of the organs and processes that provide protection against infection and toxins. In order to function properly your immune system needs to be capable of detecting an...
Dr. Richard DiPaolo is a Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine. He completed his Ph.D. at Washington University in Saint Louis in 2002, followed by a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at NIAID, National Institutes of Health. Dr. DiPaolo had...
Kelly was first diagnosed with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) at the early age of two. At the time of her diagnosis in 1982, options for treatment were extremely limited. As a result, Kelly’s mobility has become exceedingly restricted, requiring a walker or wheelchair at home...
The foundations of a rheumatology researcher… As a young child, Anna Helena Jonsson, MD, PhD, was close friends with a girl who had juvenile idiopathic arthritis. As she grew up, this was not in the forefront of her thoughts but once in college this early experience...