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With Rheumatoid Arthritis, Thinking Outside the Box Means Looking Beyond The Joints
It must not be forgotten that rheumatoid arthritis is a SYSTEMIC disease, the most basic manifestation being malaise and fatigue. But there can also be significant inflammation of a variety of organ systems,...
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Expert & Community Posts
Incontinence vs. Interstitial Cystitis: Which One Is It?
By Jennifer Sobol, D.O. , Health Expert...ability to store an appropriate amount of urine. Treatments are pretty variable, but the... Read more »
Pulmonary Hypertension - What You Need to Know
By Alvin Hopkinson , Health Expert...lung diseases. According to medical opinions, the treatment of pulmonary hypertension does not... Read more »
COPD and asthma: What's the difference?
By David Kaufman, M.D. , Health Expert...forms of cancer, which are getting better and better treatment. In my experience (and one that... Read more »
Keeping Your Heart Beating Healthily
By Heather Reese , Health Expert...a heart transplant, but for most people it can be treated through lifestyle and medication. It... Read more »
Is your doctor meeting your COPD needs?
By Jane M. Martin , Health Expert...voiced, my long time physician was not recognizing nor treating these symptoms. Frankly, he just... Read more »
Health Guide
Scleroderma: Treatment for Lung Complications
...the lung. Intravenous cyclophosphamide can be life-saving for patients with pneumonia resulting from interstitial lung disease. Side effects include hair loss, infection, and bleeding into the... Read more »Scleroderma: Prognosis
...and then the progression slows down.One of the most serious complications of pulmonary fibrosis is interstitial lung disease, which causes breathing difficulties and a decline in lung function.... Read more »Scleroderma: Diagnosis
...associated with specific aspects of the disease. Therefore, identifying their presence could help diagnose, treat, and monitor people with scleroderma. For example, the presence of anti-U1-RNP and... Read more »Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Radiation Treatments
Treatment Options by StagesOccult StageIn the occult stage (TX, N0, M0), cancer cells are found in a sample of a patient's coughed-up sputum but no cancer cells have yet been detected in the... Read more »Pneumonia: Diagnosis
...determine if the cause of CAP is bacteria, atypical bacteria, or a virus, since they all require different treatments. In children, for example, S. pneumonia is the most common cause, but... Read more »Images
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