May 21st, 2010
Studies showed that 50% of all lupus pregnancies are completely normal, 25% deliver normal babies prematurely, and there is a percentage of 25 which represents fetal loss due to spontaneous abortion or death of the baby.
However, lupus pregnancies are not easy, and they may be considered ‘high-risk’. Pregnant lupus patients should be supervised by obstetricians who are familiar with high risk pregnancies and there should be collaboration with woman’s primary physician. Read the rest of this entry »
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May 20th, 2010
Women are 3 times more likely to get rheumatoid arthritis than men. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease, a condition where the immune system attacks healthy tissue. The exact cause is still unknown. But in a recent study, an experimental drug showed promising signs of blocking the disease in lab rat.
Harris Perlman is a medical researcher at Northwestern University in Illinois, says that, normally a protein in healthy immune cells causes the cells to die after they attack an invading bacteria or virus. Read the rest of this entry »
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May 20th, 2010
Researchers from Norway in 2006 published in the British journal Gut additional new evidence of the link between foods and rheumatoid arthritis. The measured these antibodies in blood and intestinal fluid in people with rheumatoid arthritis compared with healthy people.
The results, in their opinion, indicate that measuring blood antibodies to foods in rheumatoid arthritis provides little information about the role of foods in rheumatoid arthritis. Read the rest of this entry »
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May 19th, 2010
Many people have failed to make a differentiation between rheumatoid arthritis and lupus arthritis. Both of them are autoimmune diseases. It is a disease where the immune systems attack healthy tissues and causes itself harm. So, where does one draw the line?
Medical experts all agree that proper diagnosis and differentiation of these diseases is not an easy job. The sign and symptoms and laboratory test of both diseases tend to overlap. Read the rest of this entry »
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