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...Jackie, who has rheumatoid arthritis, was married and divorced is now raising a son. Sue, another single mother, is doing the same. Lynn worked as a children's librarian out of a mobile van; she now helps mentally challenged children and worries about the end of government funding. Suzy, the posh girl, has a successful marriage...
...European governments have long funded one form of treatment without much hard evidence to back its efficacy. France, Germany and Italy spend hundreds of millions of euros reimbursing the cost of treatments at thermal baths where the waters, rich in minerals, are thought possibly to alleviate conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis. Even the French Academy of Medicine suspends its skepticism when it comes to the baths; it validates their water quality and therapeutic indications. Assurance Maladie pays out about €158 million a year for treatments at France's 120 authorized thermal-bath centers. Italy's national health system...
...Biology, reported that “special forms of gold, platinum, and other classes of medicinal metals work by stripping bacteria and virus particles from the grasp of a key immune system protein,” according to a press release. Gold-based drugs have been used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases. De Wall and DeDecker’s research began in 2001, with the goal of finding new drugs to suppress autoimmune response, a reaction by the body against its own cells or tissues. Instead, they “discovered a biochemical mechanism that may help...
...marijuana, making the "patient pot laws" that have passed in 11 states seem less like a social movement than a legitimate medical trend. One trial--the first controlled study of its kind--showed that a medicine containing cannabis extracts called Sativex not only lessened the pain of rheumatoid arthritis but actually suppressed the disease. An earlier study published in the Journal of Neuroscience showed that synthetic cannabinoids, the chemicals in marijuana, can reduce inflammation in the brain and may protect it from the cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer's disease...
...RHEUMATOID RELIEF: CAN IT BE CANNABIS? Sativex, a drug that contains marijuana--or cannabis--extracts, not only lessens the pain of rheumatoid arthritis but also seems to suppress the disease, according to a five-week study of 56 patients in Rheumatology. It was the first controlled trial of the ancient analgesic on that condition...