As most patients with an autoimmune condition know, some days are going to be more challenging than others. For many, a challenging day begins with a painful, stiff morning that can make it difficult to face a normal routine. Unfortunately, there is often no option...
Awarded jointly to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton, and Charles M. Rice "for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus." Going Viral Blood-borne hepatitis is a serious global health problem. Alcohol abuse, environmental toxins and autoimmune conditions can also contribute to liver inflammation but it is mainly caused...
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...
Dr. Lood completed both his Master’s degree in biomedicine and his PhD in Clinical Medicine at Lund University. At this early stage in his career, he was already marked as a researcher to watch and was awarded the best doctoral thesis of the year. After...
A disconnect between researchers and treating physicians often exists. Doctors such as Dr. Hiroshi Asahara bridge this gap. His knowledge as a molecular biologist combined with his experience working with patients make him a force to be reckoned with in arthritis research. Dr. Asahara completed his...
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...
Treatment plans for autoimmune conditions may include planned surgeries (such as joint replacement). Such surgeries can exacerbate the inflammatory process, something that would normally require increased immunosuppression. This often raises the question: is it wise to pause immunosuppression prior to undergoing the operation? Unfortunately, there...
We have previously looked at the idea that certain foods can facilitate of excessive inflammation (https://curearthritis.org/you-are-what-you-eat/). A number of scientific studies have confirmed that diet can alter chronic pain levels associated with numerous forms of arthritis including osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis....