Autoimmune

Blocking Inflammation in Juvenile Arthritis | Michael Waterfield

Scientist Looking To Block Inflammation In Juvenile Arthritis

17 Nov 2018

Posted at 09:48h in Autoimmune, Autoimmune Research, Juvenile Arthritis, Juvenile Arthritis Research by ANRF 0 Comments

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....

Eight Tips to Teaching with Rheumatoid Arthritis

17 May 2018

Posted at 10:11h in Autoimmune, Cure Arthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis by Tiffany Conner 0 Comments

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 Intriguing Role of Macrophages in Rheumatoid Arthritis

06 Apr 2018

Posted at 11:31h in Autoimmune, Autoimmune Research, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis Research by ANRF 0 Comments

Key players in the body’s defenses, macrophages are immune cells that swallow bacteria, viruses or infectious germs. When the body comes under attack, these white blood cells engulf the attackers and eliminate the threat. Like characters in a Pac-Man video game, they roam the body,...

Juvenile Arthritis Treatment: From the Dark Ages in to a Bright Future

14 Mar 2018

Posted at 17:22h in Autoimmune, JA, Juvenile Arthritis by Lene Andersen 1 Comment

Whenever I see a child with juvenile arthritis (JA), my heart aches. Not because it’s especially hard to see a child who lives with a difficult condition – although, of course it is – but because of something a bit different. You see, I was once...

Scleroderma Treatment | Gene Expression | Eliza Tsou, PhD

New Understanding of Genes May Lead To New Scleroderma Treatment

08 Mar 2018

Posted at 11:25h in Autoimmune, Autoimmune Research by ANRF 0 Comments

New insights into the workings of genes are bringing hope for a revolution in scleroderma research and scleroderma treatment. Scleroderma (also called systemic sclerosis) stiffens connective tissue and decreases blood vessel formation throughout the body, scarring the skin and triggering potentially lethal damage to vital...

Learning To Be Okay With Me and My Chronic Illness

01 Mar 2018

Posted at 09:56h in Autoimmune, Juvenile Arthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis by Kara Dingess 6 Comments

Remember when you were younger and someone would ask you, “what do you want to be when you grow up?” A typical response would be an astronaut, cowboy, policeman, actress, teacher or princess. However, for me, because of my chronic illness, my response was a...

Writing With RA | Keep Trying, You Will Finish Your Story

15 Feb 2018

Posted at 10:39h in Autoimmune, Rheumatoid Arthritis by ANRF 2 Comments

For Erik Vick, an author and self-described “chainsaw-wielding Viking”, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is just another villain to defeat. This beast he battles has tried to take many things away from him, but writing and humor are two things he refuses to give up without a...

Jim Nollsch and Hayden Fisher | Cure Arthritis Ambassadors

Jim Nollsch and Hayden Fisher Named Cure Arthritis Ambassadors

29 Jan 2018

Posted at 09:53h in Arthritis News, Autoimmune, Rheumatoid Arthritis by ANRF 0 Comments

Jim Nollsch and Hayden Fisher have been named as the newest additions to the Cure Arthritis Ambassadors. Jim Nollsch and Hayden Fisher are the co-founders of the Blue Sky Cup, an annual event in Vail, Colorado, where teams compete to ski up to 40,000 vertical...

Healthy Habits Changed My Relationship With Arthritis

23 Jan 2018

Posted at 10:21h in Autoimmune, Juvenile Arthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis by Harriet Anderson 2 Comments

Rheumatoid arthritis is currently an incurable disease that is very difficult to manage. I have no doubt that my story is not unique. In my 24 years of living with arthritis I have never experienced such improved changes in my disease activity as I have...

How My Fellow Patients Saved Me | Lilly’s Autoimmune Arthritis Journey

15 Dec 2017

Posted at 16:15h in Autoimmune, Psoriatic Arthritis by Lilly Stairs 0 Comments

Have you ever had one of those dreams where you’re trying as hard as you can to run away, but you can’t seem to break out of slow motion, or you are simply stuck in your tracks? I have. Except for me, it wasn’t a...