Word: rheumatoid
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Nonetheless, satisfied users abound. Nancy Wallrich, 56, a homemaker in Santa Fe Springs, Calif., who has had rheumatoid arthritis for 30 years, says her water bed has brought her uninterrupted sleep. It has also improved her sex life. "For me, many positions and movements had become difficult," she observes. "Now I am able to move around more." That sounds a lot like what water beds were famous for way back when...
...third study held implications not only for heart disease but possibly for such ailments as rheumatoid arthritis and asthma. The research, conducted by Harvard scientists, indicated that a fish diet may slow the process of inflammation by altering the chemistry of white blood cells. Preliminary evidence both in animals and humans suggests that such a diet may help relieve symptoms of arthritis and perhaps other inflammatory diseases. However, says Dr. K. Frank Austen of Harvard, it is too early to make any recommendations, and fish-oil experts sound a special note of caution on cod-liver oil, which...
...suffering, like the box itself, is divided into four spaces, each with its allotment of pink, white, brown and blue pills. "The pain is always there," she says; "there are just different levels of it. "First there is the "daily, hard, getting-around pain." This constant pain of rheumatoid arthritis has been with Maureen Hemmis, 37, since she was 18 years old. Then there is the variable pain: spots of acute, stabbing sensations that change location each day. Worst of all are the arthritic flare-ups when each joint rages and burns, hot to the touch. "The pain is everywhere...
DIED. Edward Franklin, 53, medical researcher whose pioneering studies into the synthesis and metabolism of proteins in the body increased the understanding of the aging process; of septicemia; in New York City. An authority on immunology, Franklin also did outstanding work on lymph-system cancer and rheumatoid arthritis...
...Rheumatoid arthritis is one of many autoimmune diseases, in which the body's immune system attacks its own tissues. In rheumatoid arthritis, the body responds as if the joints were a foreign element, using different types of white blood cells to attack and destroy the supposed invader. Though researchers still hope to develop drugs that control the body's immune system, radiotherapy may provide interim relief for some of the nearly 6.5 million Americans suffering from rheumatoid arthritis...