Rheumatoid Arthritis

Dr. Nigrovic Puts Research Into Practice | Living An Academic Career

10 Dec 2018

Posted at 07:57h in Autoimmune, Juvenile Arthritis, Juvenile Arthritis Research, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis Research by ANRF 1 Comment

Peter A. Nigrovic, MD, is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Associate Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is a practicing adult and pediatric rheumatologist and director of the Center for Adults with Pediatric Rheumatic Illness (CAPRI) at the Brigham and...

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,...

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...

Now and Then: Dreaming of a Future without Rheumatoid Arthritis

07 Dec 2017

Posted at 16:07h in Autoimmune, Rheumatoid Arthritis by Lene Andersen 1 Comment

I’ve lived with autoimmune arthritis for 50 years. For most of that time, no treatment existed, which is why I had to start using a power wheelchair at age 16. In the past two decades, massive advances have been made in research and treatment, enabling...

Total Knee Replacement | The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

29 Nov 2017

Posted at 10:37h in Autoimmune, Osteoarthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis by Effie Koliopoulos 8 Comments

Growing up, I remember doing class assignments that asked us where we envisioned our lives to be in five, ten, twenty years. Being diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) at eighteen and having a total knee replacement at twenty-nine years old was not on my radar. My...

How Does RA Start? | Rheumatoid Arthritis

How Does RA Start? Specialized Cells May Hold The Answer

25 Oct 2017

Posted at 19:58h in Autoimmune Research, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis Research by ANRF 0 Comments

Scientists are diligently studying our immune systems to find what starts rheumatoid arthritis (RA). So how does RA start? To find out we need to begin by understanding a little about our immune system. Our immune system has evolved to be complicated because the immune...