05.01.2020 Findings may point to an opportunity for earlier diagnosis of PsA by Judith Lin, MD Psoriatic arthritis can be difficult to diagnose in early stages of symptom onset due to the variable clinical presentation, limited exam findings, overlapping features with other diseases, and lack of reliable biomarkers. Perhaps it is not too surprising that […]
Pam Harrison November 18, 2014 Exposure to antibiotics during childhood significantly increases the risk for juvenile idiopathic arthritis in a dose-dependent manner, say investigators reporting at the American College of Rheumatology 2014 Annual Meeting in Boston. They suggest that alterations in the human microbiome might be implicated in the development of the disease. “The more […]
Published: Jul 28, 2014 By Nancy Walsh, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today Patients with psoriatic arthritis who smoke have worse patient-reported disease features at baseline and don’t respond as well as nonsmokers to anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF) treatment, a Danish study found. Current smokers had higher patient global scores on a 100-mm visual analog scale […]
Frontline Medical News, 2014 Feb 26, B Jancin News February 27, 2014 Full Story SNOWMASS, COLO. (FRONTLINE MEDICAL NEWS) – Mounting circumstantial evidence points to perturbation of bacterial communities in the gut and skin as important environmental triggers for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. A distinctive pattern of alterations in the skin microbiota, termed bacterial “cutaneotypes,” has recently been […]
Described in ancient Egyptian medical texts, arthritis — particularly gout — was one of the earliest diseases to be clinically recognized. Hippocrates (~460-357 BC) differentiated gout from other forms of arthritis, while an ayurvedic medicine text from 123 AD references a disease characterized by swollen, painful joints and occasional fever — in all likelihood, rheumatoid arthritis (RA).