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...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...
...Adele Lojko, 59, the eight steps leading from the sidewalk to the front door of her suburban Boston home were a barrier as forbidding as the Great Wall of China. Often confined to a wheelchair with severe rheumatoid arthritis, she had to be carried up and down the steps. But now, after many years of needing assistance whenever she came or left, Mrs. Lojko proudly navigates that once insurmountable hurdle by herself, needing only a cane...
...Lojko is one of ten Boston and eleven San Francisco-area rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with a new program of radiation therapy that has produced promising results in relieving both pain and stiffness from this sometimes crippling disease. Radiation therapy is one of the standard treatments for Hodgkin's disease and other cancers of the lymph nodes; in the past 25 years, it has helped raise the cure rate for Hodgkin's disease from 30% to 80%. While refining their techniques, Hodgkin's researchers noticed that irradiation also seemed to relieve arthritis in laboratory animals. Stanford University...
...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...