Word: rheumatoid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Help for rheumatoid arthritis...
...That was a year ago. Today Rachel can dress easily, do household chores and climb up the nine flights of stairs to her doctor's office. Her startling rejuvenation is in part the result of a novel experimental treatment that may eventually help many other victims of severe rheumatoid arthritis as well...
...Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Drs. Daniel Wallace, James Klinenberg and Dennis Goldfinger worked with twelve patients with severe rheumatoid arthritis, for whom medications, including gold and penicillamine, provided no relief. They removed either plasma (a process dubbed plasmapheresis) or the white blood cells called lymphocytes and plasma (lymphoplasmapheresis) in 20 sessions over eleven weeks...
Striking predominantly women in their childbearing years, lupus erythematosus ("red wolf disease") was given its bizarre name by 19th century doctors who thought that its characteristic reddish rash resembled a wolfs bite. Now physicians know that discolored skin is only one symptom of a far more pervasive ailment. Like rheumatoid arthritis, SLE is one of the so-called autoimmune diseases, caused by the body literally waging war on itself...
Bracelets and Diets. Contrary to popular notions, arthritis-which afflicts millions of Americans-is not a single disease, but a collection of ailments characterized by a common irritation of the joints. In the case of rheumatoid arthritis, some doctors suspect malfunctions of the immune system, perhaps triggered by viruses. Indeed, in recent years, researchers have linked at least four different kinds of arthritis in Africa, Asia and Australia to viruses apparently transmitted by mosquitoes. Other types of arthritis may be bacterial in origin or simply the result of stress at certain joints. In any case, the lack of a clear...