Rheumatoid Arthritis

A Patient’s Perspective on RA

Lisa C. Glavish | February 3, 2012

I was diagnosed in April 2010, at 44 years old, with seropositive RA; the disease rapidly turned my life upside down.

Letter: RA Approval for IL-1Ra

William Arend, MD | February 3, 2012

Investors convinced the executives of Synergen that they needed to evaluate IL-1Ra for a disease with a more rapid outcome. RA studies were too slow to yield a quick profit. Thus, they picked sepsis syndrome.

A Short History of Rheumatoid Arthritis Therapeutics

Simon M. Helfgott, MD | January 13, 2012

Or, why I chose to become a rheumatologist

Give Rheumatology Patients a Helping Hand

Staff | January 13, 2012

Nearly 10 million Americans suffer from carpal tunnel syndrome, a condition that disables a key nerve in the wrist resulting in numbness, tingling, weakness, and loss of function in the hands and wrist. These symptoms are similar to those of rheumatoid arthritis and other rheumatic conditions, and it is important that patients know the difference.