NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Patients with inflammatory polyarthritis who take nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) like ibuprofen do not appear to have an excess risk of dying from ...

Switching to a plant-based diet can alleviate the pain caused by rheumatoid arthritis, a new study shows. Rheumatoid arthritis is a type of inflammatory polyarthritis, characterized by inflammation in ...

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a prototypic autoimmune disorder that predominantly affects females of childbearing age and is involved with inflammation in multiple organ systems. SLE can ...

Diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is largely clinical, based on key historic and physical findings and serial observation of symptoms, signs and response to therapies. Observation during the ...

People with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), an inflammatory autoimmune disease, tend to die younger and, largely from cardiovascular disease (CVD). One explanation for this increasingly recognized fact is ...

To determine their stability and prognostic value, levels of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP) antibodies and rheumatoid factor (RF) were measured at baseline and at 5 years in patients ...

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease, have a high risk of death from disease – at least double the risk of the general population, studies overwhelmingly ...

The CASPAR classification criteria for psoriatic arthritis (PsA) identify any one of these as a necessary indication of inflammatory articular disease before the other components of the criteria may ...

Canine immune-mediated polyarthritis and steroid-responsive meningitis-arteritis (SRMA) are inflammatory disorders that predominantly affect young to middle-aged dogs. Immune-mediated polyarthritis is ...