The latest health headlines to help you stay informed, take control of your care, and advocate for better health.
The latest health headlines to help you stay informed, take control of your care, and advocate for better health.
The latest health headlines to help you stay informed, take control of your care, and advocate for better health.
The latest health headlines to help you stay informed, take control of your care, and advocate for better health.
The latest health headlines to help you stay informed, take control of your care, and advocate for better health.
By Kelsey Kloss
Dr. Virshup’s life work included providing care to rheumatology patients who couldn’t otherwise afford it.
By Kelsey Kloss
The findings underscore the need for preventive measures and chronic disease management in immunosuppressed adults — even after COVID vaccination.
In a study that assessed clinical images across four major rheumatology training resources, researchers found only 13 percent of images featured patients with darker skin tones.
New research found that arthritis and hypertension are the most common chronic illnesses among veterans, regardless of age or sex. The research also suggests that veterans are more likely to experience multiple chronic conditions (MCC) than non-veterans.
By CreakyStaff
Selma Blair walked the 2019 Oscar red carpet with a cane in her first public appearance since sharing her multiple sclerosis diagnosis.
Clogged arteries from too-little sleep can raise your risk of stroke, peripheral artery disease, and other problems.
Heart failure was of particular concern.
It’s an improvement from 20 years ago, but progress in reducing the number of people exposed to secondhand smoke has stalled in recent years.
Figuring out how to slow — or completely stop — the development of RA is an exciting area of clinical research.
Losing weight and exercising more are key to managing both diseases.
By Dcurtis
Starting on November 1st, the Open Enrollment period is the time for everyone to start thinking about health coverage for 2018.
If you’re only taking calcium and vitamin D to support your skeleton, you might be missing out.
Premenopausal women have a high risk of thinning bones if they have rheumatoid arthritis. You should ask about getting tested for osteoporosis if you have RA.
Lowering inflammation levels may help treat your arthritis symptoms *and* lift your mood.
Here’s a look at how arthritis care can vary dramatically across America.
People with chronic physical conditions are more likely to have mental health problems, and vice versa. But it turns out that there's an especially close link between arthritis and depression.
Having multiple co-occurring diseases, such as diabetes or depression, may make your psoriasis harder to manage.
Wondering if your doctor would approve medical marijuana being legalized? It turns out, they probably do.
By CreakyStaff
If you have an autoimmune disease such as rheumatoid arthritis, the jury’s still out on whether the new shingles vaccine is safe for you.
By CreakyStaff
Finding out you’re pregnant when you have an autoimmune disease like inflammatory arthritis is a swirl of a million emotions. You’re thrilled (and perhaps relieved) that you’re finally expecting, but you’re also likely a nervous, anxious wreck. Is it safe...
By CreakyStaff
The U.S. could face a shortage of more than 4,100 full-time rheumatologists by 2030, according to new research published in Arthritis Care & Research. “The current U.S. adult rheumatology workforce is in jeopardy of accelerated decline at a time when...
By CreakyStaff
Tearing one’s meniscus, the C-shaped cartilage that acts as a cushion between the shin and thigh bones, is a common sports injury and can “almost guarantee early-onset osteoarthritis and eventual knee replacement,” the New York Post reports. But, the Post...
By CreakyStaff
Older patients save money when they pay cash for certain generic drugs at Walmart rather than using health insurance, according to a widely reported article in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. “We already know from consumer reports that beneficiaries...
By Louis Tharp
So-called “bad” cholesterol, or low-density lipoprotein (LDL), builds up as plaque on blood-vessel walls and narrows the flow of blood. This places patients at higher risk for major cardiac problems. It’s long been known that lowering LDL levels reduces risk...
By CreakyStaff
Children who regularly breathe in secondhand smoke have a higher risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA) as adults, according to new research published in the journal Rheumatology. Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault, of France’s Institut Gustave Roussy, and colleagues studied more than 70,000...
By CreakyStaff
ACR issues policy principals that urge federal officials to adopt as they consider drug policy changes affecting the health care of chronically ill Americans.
By CreakyStaff
“Large-scale longitudinal studies will be essential to draw firm conclusions regarding PsA-associated risk for treatment-induced malignancy,” the researchers noted.
By CreakyStaff
When physicians aim to achieve remission for rheumatoid arthritis patients, the patients fare better than do those whose doctors target low disease activity.
By CreakyStaff
Overweight and obese adults are four times likelier to try to lose weight if they receive weight-loss counseling.
By CreakyStaff
Spondyloarthritis (SpA) patients who took the nonsteroidal anti-Inflammatory drug (NSAID) diclofenac were at elevated risk for heart attack, although osteoarthritis (OA) patients who took that drug didn’t put themselves at greater heart attack risk. For SpA patients who took the...
By CreakyStaff
Our first “Get a Handle on Arthritis” contest had an amazing response with over 300 people entering for a chance to win a LoveHandle phone grip. These sleek, comfortable, superior phone grips don’t tear your pocket, take up valuable space...
By CreakyStaff
Your insurance plan MAY HAVE implemented a key change, with a program called a “co-pay accumulator adjustment”, that may impact your out-of-pocket finances.
By CreakyStaff
Due to recent criticism of the FDA from a group called Patients for Biologics Safety & Access, we have issued a statement in support of the FDA.
By CreakyStaff
A systematic review of six studies, published recently in Arthritis Care & Research, evaluates the effectiveness of methotrexate in treating chikungunya.
By CreakyStaff
International rheumatology, dermatology, neurology, and pediatric groups have endorsed the new criteria.
By CreakyStaff
Ultrasound and MRI have been shown to be more sensitive than clinical examination in detecting synovitis, both in active disease and in remission.
By CreakyStaff
Younger, thinner rheumatoid arthritis patients, with lower disease activity and better scores on a certain health assessment, have a better chance of achieving remission when combining the tumor-necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitor etanercept (enbrel) with methotrexate induction therapy.
By CreakyStaff
Ever wonder what life is like for those living chronic and invisible diseases? Learn about the invisible struggles people with chronic disease face.
By CreakyStaff
Higher MBDA scores yielded statistically significant associations with higher serious infection rates and significantly higher rates of heart disease.
By CreakyStaff
In 2017, CreakyJoints lived up to our mantra of “bringing arthritis to its knees", by increasing support, education, advocacy, and research activities.
By CreakyStaff
These findings suggest that there is a window of opportunity to treat patients with undifferentiated arthritis early, to delay subsequent progression to RA.
By CreakyStaff
FDA is investigating serious adverse events involving Limbrel, a product in capsule form currently being marketed as a medical food to manage the metabolic processes associated with osteoarthritis.
By CreakyStaff
Adults with hypertension can lower their blood pressure by consuming less sodium and sticking to the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet. That’s according to preliminary data presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2017 in Anaheim. Researchers,...
By CreakyStaff
More than half of cardiovascular disease patients are being denied access to a new treatment.
By CreakyStaff
UK researchers have found that obese rheumatoid arthritis patients are likelier to be disabled and have lower remission rates.
By CreakyStaff
Women with rheumatoid arthritis were 68 percent likelier to develop chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) than was the general population.
By CreakyStaff
Before undergoing total knee or hip replacement surgery, it is important for osteoarthritis patients to be of a healthy weight.
By CreakyStaff
Does your zodiac sign shape what kind of patient you are? Find your sign to learn some fun "insights" into your patient personality.
By CreakyStaff
CreakyJoints attended New York Fashion Week to raise awareness of rheumatoid arthritis.
By CreakyStaff
Just two decades ago, hospital waiting rooms were packed with patients sitting in wheelchairs suffering, debilitated, from the pains of rheumatoid arthritis and other related diseases. “My colleagues and I did our best to treat and relieve the suffering the...
By CreakyStaff
UPDATE: With the impact of Hurricane Irma affecting Florida, Georgia, and beyond, a Facebook Group has been created to help these patients. Please share this group and join if you need assistance or can help provide some. For most of...
By CreakyStaff
For the past decade, rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis patients have received suboptimal screenings and treatment for osteoporosis, despite a higher risk for that disease, which causes brittle and weak bones. That’s according to a new study published in Arthritis Care...
By CreakyStaff
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently proposed a Medicare policy update for the 2018 calendar year, which it says is part of a broader strategy to ease regulatory burdens, improve patient-doctor relationships, and increase transparency. “Doctors want...
By CreakyStaff
CreakyJoints was born at 3 a.m. one morning in 1999, when Seth Ginsberg emailed his former internship boss, entrepreneur Louis Tharp. “I was in my bunk bed, miserable and alone,” Ginsberg recalls in an article posted on Healio.com. In the...
By CreakyStaff
An association between obesity and psoriatic arthritis has been established. “Regarding obesity and axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA), there were only a few studies investigating this topic, and especially the response to tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi) in obese patients,” says Raphael...
By CreakyStaff
Writing with the hindsight’s benefit in “What I Wish I’d Known About My Knees” in the New York Times, Jane Brody laments the cost, pain, and effort she expended to avoid knee replacement. “Many of the procedures people undergo to...
By CreakyStaff
We decided that sometimes an hour isn’t enough to discuss important topics in the autoimmune community. On Monday July 10th we are kicking off a special 24 hour #CreakyChats on “pro-tips”. This day long chat will be driven by you!...
By CreakyStaff
The vast majority of enrollees in the Obamacare marketplace would pay higher premiums in 2020 for a silver plan if the Senate healthcare bill passes, with older and lower income enrollees seeing the biggest increases, according to an analysis by...
By CreakyStaff
Millions of Americans are adopting gluten-free diets, but is this really necessary? A New York Times article takes a closer look.
By CreakyStaff
Postmenopausal women with osteoporosis who took romosozumab for a year experienced “rapid and large reductions" in risk of fracturing vertebrae.
By CreakyStaff
EULAR report highlights the importance of early intervention in the treatment of people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases.
By CreakyStaff
It’s a tale of two guidelines for consuming alcohol while taking methotrexate (MTX). “Alcohol significantly increases the risk for liver damage while taking methotrexate,” notes the American College of Rheumatology. “Alcohol should be avoided.” And yet, patients on MTX can...
By CreakyStaff
Patients who exhibit lupus-like symptoms but haven’t met benchmarks that would lead to a lupus classification haven’t been studied sufficiently. And there is a gap between classification and treatment, meaning there hasn’t been enough focus on how to treat those...
Brenda Kleinsasser, a rheumatoid arthritis patient and CJ contributor, is also a brain injury survivor. After a craniotomy at age 48 for a meningioma — typically a benign brain tumor — she now lives with frontal lobe syndrome, a disorder...
By CreakyStaff
There currently are no guidelines on the use of combination oral and topical NSAID therapy. Yet, we know that NSAIDs have been associated with an increased risk of gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding, heart attack and stroke. In the only study available, oral plus topical diclofenac...
By CreakyStaff
In February 2007, researchers from the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles, lead by Dr. Loren Laine, reported that a new arthritis drug made by Merck & Co. causes fewer stomach disorders and complications than...
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