rheumatoid-arthritis
3 stories tagged "rheumatoid-arthritis"
Autoimmune & Inflammation
Oxford Found the Cells That May Mark Which Joints Rheumatoid Arthritis Attacks. They Were There Before You Were Born.
The joints rheumatoid arthritis attacks and the ones it spares are built differently in the womb, seeded with different cells before a single joint ever swells.
Autoimmune & InflammationThe Lungs May Be Where Rheumatoid Arthritis Actually Starts
Across Italy, South Korea, and California, higher fine-particle pollution tracks more RA flares and more new cases, and the biology keeps pointing at the airway, not the knee.
Autoimmune & InflammationA Chinese Bark Compound Reached the Black-Box Arthritis Drugs' Pathway From Upstream, in Rats
In rats, a compound from the bark of the Amur cork tree reached the same JAK-STAT pathway as Xeljanz and its black-box cousins, but by rebalancing the cell's fat metabolism instead of blocking the pathway directly.