March 8, 2017 Jennifer Abbasi JAMA. Published online March 8, 2017. doi:10.1001/jama.2017.0764 The mouth may seem like a strange place to search for a culprit in a disease that primarily affects the joints. But a recent collaboration by a group of multidisciplinary researchers suggests that one type of oral bacteria may be an important trigger […]
Published: Apr 19, 2014 By Nancy Walsh, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today Action Points A risk score encompassing clinical characteristics, serologic findings, and imaging tests could be used to predict which patients with positive antibodies to anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide are likely to go on to develop rheumatoid arthritis (RA), researchers found. Note that in the […]