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Think Rheumatoid Arthritis: Causes, Consequences, and Management

Prof Josef Smolen opened the symposium and briefly described the aims of the meeting. Co-host Prof Constantino Pitzalis first discussed the…

Editor’s Pick: TYRO3, AXL, and MERTK Receptor Tyrosine Kinases: Is There Evidence of Direct Involvement in Development and Onset of Sjögren’s Syndrome?

Sjögren’s syndrome (SjS) is a chronic, progressive, systemic, human autoimmune disease in which an auto-inflammatory process within the salivary and…

The Relevance of Hyperuricaemia

The aim of the present review is to summarise the results from recent clinical studies on the basis of the newly proposed temporal classification of…

Non-Invasive Cardiovascular Imaging for Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in Rheumatoid Arthritis

People with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are often under-recognised as a group with elevated risk of cardiovascular (CV) disease and increased morbidity…

Psoriatic Arthritis: A Review

Psoriatic arthritis is an inflammatory arthritis which affects the skin and musculoskeletal system. If not diagnosed early and treated effectively it can…

Therapies in the Pipeline for Systemic Autoimmune Diseases

The current goals in the development of novel therapeutics of systemic autoimmune diseases are to develop agents more effective than conventional…

Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies; Association with Overlap Myositis and Syndromes: Classification, Clinical Characteristics, and Associated Autoantibodies

Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are traditionally identified as a group of disorders that target skeletal muscle due to autoimmune dysfunction…

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Green Tea Used to Improve Cognitive Function of Individuals with Down’s Syndrome

INDIVIDUALS with Down’s syndrome have for the first time experienced an improvement in cognitive function as the result of receiving daily doses of green…

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Stem Cells Offer Wider Potential After Restoring Motor Functions in Stroke Patients

THE SUCCESS of a small clinical trial using stem cells to restore the motor functions of stroke patients could have wider implications for the treatment…

ESMO 2018 Annual Congress to be held in Munich

Switzerland, 21 July, 2016 – ESMO, the leading European professional organisation for medical oncology, has announced that the ESMO 2018 Annual Congress…