Word: rheumatoid
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...symptoms can be confused not only with those of scarlet fever but also with those of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and other ailments. While the illness is still considered rare, Bell says: "There's no question that 650 cases is an undercount...
...pressures on the spine. If certain of the vertebrae have failed to form properly, the result may be a pronounced sideways curve called scoliosis, a condition that causes disability and pain. Tumors can grow in the confined regions of the spinal column, pressing or pinching nerves. In cases of rheumatoid arthritis, the cushioning discs that act as shock absorbers between the vertebrae prematurely degenerate, losing their sponginess and eventually disappearing...
...clinical tests of the drug. But only a year later the restrictions were eased to permit experiments in such hard-to-treat illnesses as interstitial cystitis (a painful bladder inflammation), scleroderma (a condition characterized by thickening and hardening of the skin and sometimes internal organs as well) and rheumatoid arthritis...
...That was a year ago. Today Rachel can dress easily, do household chores and climb up the nine flights of stairs to her doctor's office. Her startling rejuvenation is in part the result of a novel experimental treatment that may eventually help many other victims of severe rheumatoid arthritis as well...
...Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Drs. Daniel Wallace, James Klinenberg and Dennis Goldfinger worked with twelve patients with severe rheumatoid arthritis, for whom medications, including gold and penicillamine, provided no relief. They removed either plasma (a process dubbed plasmapheresis) or the white blood cells called lymphocytes and plasma (lymphoplasmapheresis) in 20 sessions over eleven weeks...