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1 Aug 2017

Editor’s Pick: Why do Diseases Start One Sided? Clues From HLA-B27 Acute Anterior Uveitis

Uveitis is an inflammatory disease with significant disease burden, as it causes ≤10% of legal blindness in the USA.
8 Mins
1 Aug 2017

Osmolytes as Mediators of the Muscle Tissue’s Responses to Inflammation: Emerging Regulators of Myositis with Therapeutic Potential

In this review, the role of the organic osmolytes taurine, betaine, myo-inositol, and sorbitol in skeletal muscles in general, and in myositis in…
10 Mins
1 Aug 2017

Advances in Epigenetics and Integration of Omics in Lupus

Systemic lupus erythematosus is a chronic, multi-organ disease that predominantly affects young women of childbearing age.
7 Mins
1 Aug 2017

Nanomedicines for Increased Specificity and Therapeutic Efficacy of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis, the most frequent chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease, can lead to pain, bone and articular destruction, and limb…
9 Mins
1 Aug 2017

Vitamin D Deficiency and Chronic Widespread Pain

Vitamin D acts as a steroid hormone possessing important functions in calcium and phosphorus balance and bone health.
4 Mins
12 Jun 2017

Humane Resources: Funding Restrictions in Rare Rheumatic Diseases

As any rheumatologist knows, most non-medical individuals don’t really know what ‘rheumatology’ is. Not so much of a bad reputation, as no reputation.
10 Mins
2 Mar 2017

New Drug Treatments for Osteoarthritis: What Is on the Horizon?

Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common form of arthritis, yet has historically lagged far behind rheumatoid arthritis in terms of drug development.
9 Mins
2 Mar 2017

Antiphospholipid Syndrome and the Lungs

Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is a systemic autoimmune disease characterised by recurrent thromboembolic events (arterial or venous) and/or morbidity…