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how medicines for arthritis, the flu and herpes are helping to treat Covid
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the world’s media has become understandably fixated with the race to find a vaccine. The Phase Three trials carried out by Pfizer/Moderna and Oxford/AstraZeneca were pored over like no other medical experiment in history, and the news that Margaret Keenan, a 90-year-old grandmother, had […]
What’s the Difference Between Psoriatic Arthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis?
If you’ve got sore, swollen joints, there’s a good chance you’ll come across arthritis as you’re searching for a cause of your symptoms. But finding the right treatment requires you to get a lot more specific than that. Arthritis is actually an umbrella term for more than 100 different conditions, […]
Paula Abdul’s Arthritis Isn’t Holding Her Back During Quarantine
Photo credit: Image Group LA From Woman’s Day Singer, dancer, and pop icon Paula Abdul will be the first to tell you that she was never going to let her arthritis diagnosis stop her from dancing. “I didn’t want to let the joint pain stop me from doing what I […]