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Discomfort from sore, inflamed joints may someday cease to plague the 2.1 million Americans who suffer from rheumatoid arthritis, if an oral treatment for the condition developed by scientists at the Medical School and Beth Israel Hospital pans...
According to a study published last week in Science, a solution extracted in part from chicken bones appears to halt the progression of the disease by "teaching" the body's immune system to stop the inflammatory responses which characterize rheumatoid arthritis...
Autoimmune diseases, such as arthritis and AIDS, are caused by the body's mistaken attacks on its own systems. In rheumatoid arthritis sufferers, the body's immune system causes swelling of joint linings. This inflammation damages bone and cartilage and can result in pain, loss of movement and eventual destruction of the joint...
...hopes of "reinstructing" the immune system to cease attacking joints, researchers administered Type II collagen to 60 rheumatoid arthritic patients who had not responded favorably to treatment...
Diabetes, along with multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis, is an autoimmune disease, in which the body's immune system attacks the body's own cells. "This changes the way one thinks about autoimmunity," said Lipes...