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Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53744#.VNHHdCzQrzE Author(s)    Tine Mechlenborg Kristiansen 1* , Rasmus Antoft 2 , Jette Primdahl 3,4 , Kim Hørslev Petersen 3,4   Affiliation(s) 1 Department of Medicine and Health Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark . 2 Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark . 3 Kong Chr. X’s Hospital of Rheumatic Diseases, Graasten, Denmark . 4 Department of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark . ABSTRACT Drawing on a social phenomenological perspective in the sociology of everyday life, this ethno-graphic field study explores different ways in which women with rheumatoid arthritis perceive participation in a patient education programme as significant to their everyday lives. In particular, there are three ways in which this participation is perceived as significant to e...

Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53325#.VL3BYizQrzE   Author(s)     Simon Skurkovich 1* , Galina Lukina 2 , Yakov Sigidin 2 , Olga Pushkova 2 , Evelyna Mach 2 , Boris Skurkovich 3   Affiliation(s) 1 Advanced Biotherapy Laboratories, Rockville, USA . 2 Institute of Rheumatology, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia . 3 Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, USA . ABSTRACT In 1974, in Nature, one of us has proposed a radically new idea that led to the development of anticytokine therapy which is now used around the world for the treatment of autoimmune diseases. We were the first to use antibodies to IFN-γ and were some of the first to suggest using antagonists of TNF-α in the treatment of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases as well. Our method suppresses one of the main pathogenetic mechanisms of these diseases. Antibodies to IFN-γ and ...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52645#.VJzMHcCAM4 Affiliation(s) Clinique médicale I-H.A.L.D-Dakar, Dakar étoile, Senegal . ABSTRACT Background: Rheumatoid arthritis is predominant in women. In men certain clinical signs can delay diagnosis. Methods: A cross-section study of the epidemio-clinical and immunobiological features of rheumatoid arthritis in a male, black African population was carried out at the Aristide Le Dantec, University hospital of Dakar. Results: we studied 35 male subjects with rheumatoid arthritis. Their mean age was 42 years and the average time between the onset of symptoms to diagnosis was 44 months. In 70% of these patients, at least one joint deformation was present, most frequently an ulnar deviation of the fingers (34.3%). Extra-articular symptoms were dominated b...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=51246#.VGAbBWfHRK0 Author(s) Atsushi K. Kono 1 , Kazuhiro Kitajima 2 , Hiroshi Mmatsuoka 3 , Kyoko Otani 4 , Tomoo Itoh 4 , Kazuro Sugimura 2 Affiliation(s) 1 Department of Radiology, Kobe University Hospital, Kobe, Japan . 2 Department of Radiology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan . 3 Division of Medical Oncology/Hematology, Department of Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan . 4 Department of Diagnostic Pathology, Kobe University Hospital, Kobe, Japan . ABSTRACT Introduction: The use of methotrexate (MTX) for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is increasing. However, the immune suppr...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=51147#.VFbi92fHRK0 Author(s) Sami Salman 1 , Ahmad SAlnuaimi 2 , Nizar Abdul Lateef 1 , Rana Kadhum 1 Affiliation(s) 1 Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq . 2 Community Medicine Department, College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq . ABSTRACT Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic and disabling disease that has a major impact on the lives of patients. Objectives: To test the patients’ knowledge about their disease, it’s treatment, its complications, and if this affects severity of the disease as measured by the disease activity index (DA...