Arthritis Treatment: Gout.
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Gout is a form of inflammatory arthritis. In gout, crystals of uric acid is deposited in and around the joints. For this deposit of urate to occur, the circulating level of uric acid in the blood must be higher than normal.
Gout has been recorded through the centuries. Hippocrates wrote about it and urate [...]
Arthritis Treatment: History of Magnets & Health.
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Magnets were discovered in China and Greece. In China it was used in fortune telling and as a guide to building. By 1200 AD they were used in ships as compasses. Ever since, sailors and navigators have used compasses and the earth’s magnetic field to guide them in their journeys, whether on land [...]
Arthritis Treatment: Do magnets work in Arthritis?
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There are many arthritic patients and sufferers in pain that use magnets. Some are very certain that the magnets they are using are a great help.
There are no large controlled clinical trials to evaluate the benefits of magnets on arthritis.
Doctors in general do not think they work to relieve pain in [...]
Arthritis Treatment: Rituximab in Rheumatoid Arthritis.
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At the American College of Rheumatology Congress, reassuring information was released on repeat treatment of rheumatoid arthritis by MabThera or Rituxan (rituxmab). Further improvement of quality of life was achieved by a second course of rituximab.
Professor Keystone, University of Toronto, Canada said, “With further analyses, we are able to evaluate just what MabThera [...]
Arthritis Treatment: Cervical Spondylosis.
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Cervical spondylosis is a degenerative condition of the cervical spine.
Thirty five percent of us have had neck pain at some time or other but in most of us the pain was transient and disappeared in time. In some cases, however, this is not the case.
Movement of the neck is a complicated process involving [...]
Arthritis Treatment: Complimentary Therapy.
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This form of arthritis treatment is increasing in popularity and more health food shops are stocking their shelves with alternative treatment for arthritis. There are many reasons why sufferers are turning to this form of treatment.
Conventional medicine is not providing the expected benefits patients want. Ideally I would expect for arthritis a drug [...]
Arthritis: Is winter a problem for your arthritis?
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Winter poses a few problems for patients with arthritis especially arthritis of the hips and knees. Your driveway, the pavements and the roads are often wet and slippery. Early morning frost or ice on the road is also a problem. There is a risk of slipping and falling.
In addition the cold [...]
Arthritis: Is Gout a Disease of Indulgence?
When the level of uric acid in the blood is too high, gout can develop. It was known as the patrician’s malady in the past because it was considered a disease of over indulgence amongst the wealthy.
High purine diet can affect gout and red meat is high in purine. The rich ate red meat while [...]
Smart Drug for Arthritis.
Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis should benefit from the new range of drugs called Tumour Necrotic Factor Inhibitors (Anti-TNF).
Tests on three of these new drugs slowed progression and reduced symptoms by up to 50%.
Research at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria, has shown that these three drugs are most effective in combination with the standard treatment, [...]
Acid Reflux Treatment: Is that Chest Pain from GERD?
The main feature of GERD is chest pain. This pain is easy to recognise if it is just heartburn. GERD, however, can produce a deep pain that radiates into the back or side. This pain is not easy to differentiate from pain of cardiac origin.
In heart pain (angina pectoris), the pain is a tightness across [...]
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