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Can a vegan diet relieve rheumatoid arthritis?

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) may be able to reduce their symptoms by switching to a...patients with active RA, who were aged 20-69 years, to a gluten-free vegan diet or a normal non-vegan diet ... London Homeopathic Hospital and spokesman for the charity Arthritis Research Campaign, said: Previous ... for RA patients, he said. sanjay.tanday@haymarket.com Arthritis Research and Therapy Online 2008 ...

Drugs offer fresh hope for arthritis

Biological drugs offer hope to rheumatoid arthritis sufferers, writes Rachel Liddle....David Scott, a rheumatologist in Norwich and medical advisor to the National Rheumatoid Arthritis ... What is the story? A new generation of drugs could offer hope to patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), according to media reports. Three drugs that target the immune system have been shown ...

Hypertension being missed in rheumatoid arthritis

GPs have been urged to screen patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) for hypertension, after UK

Rheumatoid arthritis drug could prevent kidney cysts

A drug currently used to treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA) could offer fresh hope to sufferers of polycystic kidney disease by preventing the formation of cysts, findings from US studies in mice have shown. Polycystic kidney disease is the most commonly inherited renal disease and is estimated to affect one in 800 ...

Glaucoma damage reduced by rheumatoid arthritis drugs

The drugs, commonly used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, could be an alternative to surgery or beta-blocker eye drops currently used to reduce ocular pressure. For the study, mice underwent laser irradiation in one eye. The irradiation induced intraocular hypertension, a risk factor for glaucoma and resultant ...

NICE rejects arthritis drug in draft advice

Golimumab has not been recommended for use in treating psoriatic arthritis, under draft guidance...The drug is licensed for use alone, or in combination with methotrexate, for active and progressive psoriatic arthritis in adult patients when previous therapy has been inadequate. It is also licensed for limited use in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis. NICE has ...

NICE rules out RA drug abatacept

The rheumatoid arthritis (RA) drug abatacept is too expensive to be prescribed on the NHS...of the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society Ailsa Bosworth said: To deny patients abatacept is to deny people ... are recommended in patients with confirmed active RA who have already been trialled with at least two other DMARDs ...

RA drug link to atherosclerosis

A leading rheumatoid arthritis (RA) drug could promote atherosclerosis in patients, suggests...the groups lipid profiles. RA patients had a disease activity score above 3.2 and were starting therapy ...

Rheumatoid factor increases CHD risk

Healthy men who have the natu-rally occurring autoantibody rheumatoid factor in their blood...as diabetes and high BP, he said. Many people who have rheu-matoid arthritis die early after having a heart attack or suffering heart disease. But it s not only people who have arthritis who carry rheumatoid ... Previous research has shown that people who have chronic in-flammatory diseases such as rheumatoid ...

News in brief: Arthritis care wins national recognition for GP

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