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Potential Cause Of Arthritis Discovered: Carbohydrate Activates Body's Defenses, Causing Inflammation
August 22, 2002 — Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) have shown that certain types of naturally occurring carbohydrates in the body may cause rheumatoid arthritis, a ... > full story -
Fibromyalgia Pain Isn’t All In Patients’ Heads, New Brain Study Finds
June 7, 2002 — A new brain-scan study confirms scientifically what fibromyalgia patients have been telling a skeptical medical community for years: They’re really in pain. In fact, the study finds, people ... > full story -
New Treatment For Spinal Disorder Proves Effective In UCSF Study
May 2, 2002 — The pain and stiffness suffered by a quarter of a million people with the inflammatory spinal condition ankylosing spondylitis can be significantly relieved with a drug already approved for ... > full story -
Biologists Track Down Central Cause Of Lupus
April 23, 2002 — In a finding that could lead to better treatments for lupus, a Princeton biologist has pinpointed what appears to be a central cause of the disease. Martin Weigert and colleagues have discovered a ... > full story -
Keeping Autoimmunity In Check May Depend On Balance In The Immune System
April 17, 2002 — Scientists know that the potential to generate dangerous antibodies that attack our own cells and tissues - one of the defining characteristics of autoimmune disorders like lupus - exists in ... > full story -
Tick Saliva Genes Key To Lyme Disease Vaccine
April 9, 2002 — When a deer tick bites a human or other mammalian host, it takes more than 24 hours before the Lyme disease bacterium travels from the tick’s gut to the tick’s salivary glands and then ... > full story -
Gene Therapy Promising For Rheumatoid Arthritis
February 13, 2002 — Northwestern University researchers have reported the first successful use of interleukin-13 (IL-13) cytokine gene therapy to treat and prevent rheumatoid arthritis in an animal ... > full story -
"Flap" On Protein Suggests New Therapies For Autoimmune Diseases
February 8, 2002 — Researchers at National Jewish Medical and Research Center who are studying a protein implicated in the development of lupus and rheumatoid arthritis have discovered a unique “flap” that ... > full story -
Lyme Disease Ticks Follow Rivers In Midwest
November 20, 2001 — Ticks capable of carrying the bacterium that causes Lyme disease have been slowly migrating along rivers in the Midwest, a trend that may help predict future areas at risk for the disease, say ... > full story -
Lupus Study Finds Abnormal Alpha-Interferon Secretion May Lead To Better Gene Therapies For Immune-System Disease
November 20, 2001 — Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and the Baylor Institute for Immunology Research in Dallas have linked abnormal secretion of alpha interferon to the malfunctioning immune ... > full story
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