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Relieving rheumatoid arthritis...
...studies published in yesterday's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine by doctors from Stanford and Harvard Medical Schools report that doses of radiation reduce pain and swelling in patients with rheumatoid arthritis...
Radiation, which has been used for 20 years to treat cancer of the lymph nodes, only kills the T lymphosite cells. Because patients benefitted from the radiation therapy, the doctors concluded that T lymphosite cells provoke inflamation in rheumatoid arthritis, Trentham said...
...from acne to mental retardation. Critics denounce the substance as a quack cure unsupported by scientific studies. Now though, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions have documented that DMSO can exert a powerful effect on the immune system, suggesting that it might one day be helpful in treating rheumatoid arthritis and other immune-system diseases...
...become a major tool in forensic medicine. It has helped identify rapists through semen stains, and in one paternity case it showed that a pair of fraternal twins were sired by different fathers. Researchers have found that certain HLA groupings are associated with particular diseases, including multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis. Through HLA typing, it may one day be possible to tell an individual what illnesses he is most likely to contract. Caracas-born Benacerraf, 59, who teaches at Harvard, has further defined the histocompatibility complex. He was intrigued by the variable nature of the immune response-the body...