Current treatments relieve the symptoms but not for all patients, and there is no cure. As a step forward, an international team of researchers has found more than 40 new areas in DNA that increase the risk of rheumatoid arthritis.
Awareness advocates around the world are in full swing today when it comes to raising awareness of Ankylosing Spondylitis. Today, May 4th, is World AS Day.
A group of researches in Long Island have pin-pointed two genes involved in occurrences of lupus and rheumatoid arthritis (RA). This breakthrough could eventually help doctors better diagnose and treat these two conditions.
