Issue 123 CHOI, Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA, hchoi@partners.org, has reviewed (61 references) the dietary risk factors for rheumatic disease.
Abstract: A prosp... more Issue 117 CHOI, Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA, hchoi@partners.org, has reviewed (61 references) the dietary risk factors for rheumatic disease. Abstract: This revie... more Issue 116 CAKMAK and BOLUKBAS, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, have reviewed (26 references) the physical therapy and rehabilitation of rheumatoid arthritis in children.
Abst... more PHAN and colleagues, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Division of Arthritis Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA, have found that ginger extract suppresses inflammatory processes in cells derived from synovial joints.... more Issue 106 SOEKEN, Complementary Medicine Program, University of Maryland School of Nursing, Kernan Hospital Mansion, 2200 Kernan Drive, Baltimore, MD 21207, USA, ksoeken@compmed.umm.edu, has reviewed (24 references) the evidence for the efficacy of selected compleme... more Issue 104 TUKMACHI and co-workers, Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham, UK, have carried out an open randomized controlled study of acupuncture in the treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee.... more VAS and colleagues, Centro de Salud de Dos Hermanas, Sevilla, Spain, jvas@acmas.com, have explored acupuncture and moxibustion as an adjunctive treatment for osteoarthritis of the knee.... more Issue 101 CLELAND and colleagues, Rheumatology Unit, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia, Lcleland@mail.rah.gov.au, introduce a biomarker for the compliance of patients with the advice to take fish oil for rheumatoid arthritis.... more PRLIC and others, Arthritis Research Centre of Canada, Vancouver, Canada, have studied the agreement among Ayurvedic practitioners in the
diagnosis and therapy of inflammatory arthritis.... more Issue 95 SINGH and colleagues, Southern California University of Health Sciences, USA, have studied the effectiveness of the herb, Commiphora mukul, for osteoarthritis of the knee.... more Issue 94 CLELAND and co-workers, Rheumatology Unit, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Lcleland@mail.rah.sa.gov.au, have reviewed (47 references) the role of fish oil in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
Fish oils are a rich sour... more RENNIE and co-workers, MRC Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge, UK, kirsten.rennie@mrc-hnr.cam.ac.uk, have reviewed (96 references) the evidence for nutritional management of rheumatoid arthritis.
Rheumatoid ar... more Issue 75 FIECHTNER and BRODEUR, Division of Rheumatology, Michigan State University, Colleges of Osteopathic and Human Medicine, East Lansing, Michigan, USA, jfiechtner@pol.net, reviewed (67 references) clinical studies investigating the usefulness of manipulation... more Issue 72 FISHER and SCOTT, Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital, Great Ormond Street, London, UK, investigated whether a homeopathic medicines series was effective in reducing the symptoms of joint inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis (RA).... more PERETZ and colleagues, Rheumatology, CHU Brugmann, Institute of Pharmacy, Free University of Brussels, Belgium, anne.peretz@chu-brugmann.be, investigated the effects of selenium supplementation in rheumatoid arthritis (RA).... more | Issue 53 BRODERICK, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, State University of New York at Stony Brook USA reviews (68 references) the research over the last 20 years in Mind-Body Medicine.... more CHOPRA, Center for Rheumatic Diseases, Bharati Hospital, Pune, India. archopra@pn2.VSNL.net in reviews (22 references) the fundamental principles of Ayurveda. The author describes the ancient classification of arthritis along with comparisons to the m... more DELAFUENTE, Department of Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA review (21 references) the use of glucosamine sulphate, a constituent of cartilage, in the treatment of osteoarthritis.... more ERNST and CHRUBASIK, Department of Complementary Medicine, School of Postgraduate Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Exeter, United Kingdom. E.Ernst@ex.ac.uk review (58 references) the literature regarding herbal treatments for rheumatic symp... more FIECHTNER and BRODEUR, Division of Rheumatology, Michigan State University, Colleges of Osteopathic and Human Medicine, East Lansing USA reviews (67 references) manipulation, as practised mainly by chiropractors and osteopaths, as one of the most commonly... more GARFINKEL and colleagues, BKS Iyengar Yoga Studio of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA review (29 references) yoga as an ancient tradition which has been westernized and often practised for its proposed health benefits. Traditional texts describe its benefits... more JONAS and colleagues, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland USA. wjonas@mxa.usuhs.mil write that despite a growing interest in discovering the basic mechanisms underlying arthritis, medical treatment remains symptomatic a... more YOCUM and colleagues, Arizona Arthritis Center, University of Arizona, Tucson USA writes that stress and pain mechanism pathways are complex and share many central nervous system pathways. These are critical issues for patients with rheumatoid arthritis an... more Issue 24 GIO-FITMAN, Columbia Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, IL USA reviews (22 references) the effects of psychological stress upon the immune system and how stress is linked to onset of disease and exacerbation in rheumatoid arthritis patients . Flare-ups of di... more KEEFE and colleagues, Management Programme, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Caroline 27710 USA analysed pain coping processes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.... more SHAPIRO and colleagues, Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle USA note that it has been hypothesised by researchers that omega-3 fatty acids found mainly in fish oils, may be protective against rheumatoid arthritis.... more Issue 19 KAIPIAINEN-SEPPANEN and colleagues, Department of Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, Finland obtained information regarding the incidence of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and on its recent trends in Finland.... more LINDBERG and colleagues, National Institute for Psychosocial Factors and Health, Stockholm, Sweden applied the clinical use of psychoneuroimmunological approaches to rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS: 15 patients with RA were treated with analytical insig... more MILLS and colleagues, Centre for Complementary Health Studies, University of Exeter, UK conducted a double-blind study to investigate the therapeutic efficacy of a licensed herbal medicine for the relief of chronic arthritic pain.... more PIORO-BOISSET and colleagues investigated patients with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS), and determined the prevalence, extent, cost and satisfaction with the use of alternative medicine therapies compared to control rheumatology patients.... more |
