NEW YORK (Reuters Health)—Fluctuations in the gut microbiome over time could underlie inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis, researchers suggest. “Both the state and the dynamics of the human gut microbiome in healthy individuals are highly personalized. Although cross-sectional studies have revealed dysbiosis of the gut microbiome in IBD, little is known… [Read More]
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Rheumatoid Arthritis Research Provides New Insights on Risk Factors, Identification Tools, Intervention
Established wisdom holds that patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) will fare better if their disease is diagnosed as early as possible, and treatments with disease-modifying drugs are started before inflammation can do more damage to joints and tissue. Usually, early diagnosis means spotting the clinical signs of disease, but new research tells us more about… [Read More]
Insight into Infectious Diseases Could Lead to Preventive Vaccines for Some Rheumatic Illnesses
CHICAGO—Medicine is in the middle of an infectious-disease “revolution” that seems almost destined to lead to prevention through immunization of many diseases, including rheumatic illnesses, that never were previously thought to involve transmissible agents, an infectious disease specialist said in a session at the ACR’s 2016 State-of-the-Art Clinical Symposium. An array of unlikely and fascinating… [Read More]
The Gut Microbiome Influences Postmenopausal Bone Loss
Bone health has been successfully improved by using probiotics to influence the gut microbiome in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis. New research has gained insight into this process, uncovering that sex steroid depletion increases gut permeability resulting in inflammation and pathology in mice. Treatment with probiotics also prevents this increase in gut permeability and bone loss associated with sex steroid depletion…... [Read More]
The Microbiome in Pediatric Rheumatic Diseases
The human intestinal microbiota is home to more than 1,000 bacterial species, containing approximately 3 million genes, many of which code for functions that have the potential to affect human physiology.1 Smaller numbers of organisms are also present in the skin, upper gastrointestinal tract, female reproductive tract and the oro- and nasopharynx. As tools have… [Read More]
2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting: Microbiota Power
Gut bacteria may hold clues to breakthrough rheumatic disease treatments... [Read More]
Microbiome Research Provides Clue to Rheumatoid Arthritis
A new study suggests that intestinal expansion of Prevotella copri may be associated with the pathogenesis of RA... [Read More]
2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting: Research Provides Insight into Preclinical Rheumatic Disease
Data offer clues to role of mucosal biology in etiology of rheumatoid arthrits and early pathology of rheumatic diseases... [Read More]
The Microbiome
A voyage to (our inner) Lilliput... [Read More]
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Information on new approvals and medication safety... [Read More]