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...Help for rheumatoid arthritis...
Striking predominantly women in their childbearing years, lupus erythematosus ("red wolf disease") was given its bizarre name by 19th century doctors who thought that its characteristic reddish rash resembled a wolfs bite. Now physicians know that discolored skin is only one symptom of a far more pervasive ailment. Like rheumatoid arthritis, SLE is one of the so-called autoimmune diseases, caused by the body literally waging war on itself...
...past few years, usually in summer or fall, dozens of people in eastern Connecticut-both children and adults-have been stricken with these painful and puzzling symptoms, which often come in repeated episodes that last for weeks and even months at a stretch. At first, doctors suspected rheumatoid arthritis, a serious disease of still unknown origin that can permanently cripple the joints. Then, learning that almost all the victims lived in three adjoining towns along the Connecticut River-Lyme, Old Lyme and East Haddam (total population 12,000)-medical investigators from the Yale University School of Medicine came...
Bracelets and Diets. Contrary to popular notions, arthritis-which afflicts millions of Americans-is not a single disease, but a collection of ailments characterized by a common irritation of the joints. In the case of rheumatoid arthritis, some doctors suspect malfunctions of the immune system, perhaps triggered by viruses. Indeed, in recent years, researchers have linked at least four different kinds of arthritis in Africa, Asia and Australia to viruses apparently transmitted by mosquitoes. Other types of arthritis may be bacterial in origin or simply the result of stress at certain joints. In any case, the lack of a clear...
...complex will provide obstetrical, gynecological, surgical and medical care, and serve patients with arthritis and rheumatoid conditions...