Arthritis News Archive

13-Apr-2007

 

FDA panel pans Merck arthritis medicine (The Star-Ledger)
GAITHERSBURG, Md. -- A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel yesterday overwhelmingly called for rejection of a new Merck arthritis medicine the New Jersey company hoped would replace its withdrawn pain reliever Vioxx.

Lumidee Honoured By Arthritis Charity (ContactMusic)
R+B singer LUMIDEE feared she would never be able to walk again after contracting rheumatoid arthritis, but claims her ambition to succeed spurred her

Arthritis supplements often come up short (MSNBC)
If the bottle of supplements you bought to help ease arthritis pain hasn?t helped, the reason might be that the pills don?t contain the ingredients they?re supposed to.

Juvenile arthritis hasn't kept this boy down (The Arizona Republic)
Eight-year-old Joshua Northrop is an old pro at a couple of things.

Arthritis Awareness Walk (NBC 10 Providence)
May is Arthritis Awareness Month. The Northern & Southern New England Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation will be holding a walk in Garden City on Saturday, May 12th and another on June 2nd at South County Orthopedics in Wakefield.

Pain, progress for arthritis sufferer (The Indianapolis Star)
CARMEL -- A lifetime of physical and emotional pain from arthritis has followed Jennifer M. Galyen. The confident and outgoing 25-year-old businesswoman has battled intense pain and swelling of her joints since she was just 2, when she was diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, or JRA.

Rheumatoid Arthritis Drug May Help Treat Type 2 Diabetes (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
WEDNESDAY, April 11 (HealthDay News) -- A drug designed to treat juvenile rheumatoid arthritis may also be helpful for managing type 2 diabetes, new research suggests.

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