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(European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology) UK data shared at the 2021 EULAR congress -- Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is an inflammatory disease that affects the arteries, often causing headaches, jaw pain, and vi...

(European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology) Results from the COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance and the French RMD cohort -- COVID-19 is the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection. It has been suggested that ...

(European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology) Population-based data shared at the EULAR 2021 congress -- The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 virus (SARS-CoV-2) is of...

(European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology) Data released at the 2021 EULAR congress show a substantial decline in the risk of both dementia and heart failure in people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) onset in th...

(Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago) A large study, published in the journal Pediatrics, found that both parents with a baby in the NICU are at risk, with depression symptoms identified in 33 percent of...

(Hackensack Meridian Health) The health network experts implemented the medically necessary time sensitive (MeNTS) surgical scoring system developed by the University of Chicago to triage the case load across the health ...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) At least so far, the currently limited research base does not establish that cannabis has additional adverse effects on brain development or functioning in adolescents or young adults with attenti...

(European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology) Results of the first trial of its kind presented at EULAR 2021 -- Targeting dysbiosis of the intestinal microbiota by faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) has been ...

(European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology) A population biobank study of 250,000 individuals in Finland -- Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an inflammatory autoimmune disease that causes pain, swelling and stiffnes...

(Kobe University) The results of a research collaboration between Tamagawa University and Kobe University indicate that people who are physically active during childhood have higher cognitive functions in later life. Par...

(European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology) Biologic and targeted synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (b/tsDMARDs) have caused a shift in the treatment of patients with inflammatory joint disorders, ...

(Medical University of Vienna) Researchers from the Medical University of Vienna and the University of Vienna have now shown that, in most cases, IBS is associated with bacterial biofilms in the gut that are visible unde...

(University of Jyväskylä - Jyväskylän yliopisto) According to a recent Finnish study, higher levels of moderate and vigorous physical activity can curb arterial stiffening already in childhood. However, sedentary tim...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) An experimental artificial heart includes an autoregulation control mechanism, or Auto-Mode, that can adjust to the changing needs of patients treated for end-stage heart failure. Outcomes in the ...

(McLean Hospital) New research reveals how key proteins interact to regulate the body's response to stress.

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) In a new study, a team of researchers uncovered new mechanisms underlying an important type of resistance to modern prostate cancer drugs called lineage plasticity, where cast...

(European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology) New data shared at the EULAR 2021 Virtual Congress -- There is increasing evidence that environmental air pollution is associated with people developing inflammatory a...

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) A decade-long study of distal radius fracture revealed that personalized medicine catering to a patient's individual needs and environment, not age or X-rays, should guide tre...

(Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) In the visual thalamus, neurons are in contact with both eyes but respond to only one

(European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology) Data presented at the 2021 EULAR congress show women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are at increased risks of adverse pregnancy outcomes, especially pre-term birth and...