“The heavier you are, the more likely you are to get osteoarthritis,” explains David Felson, professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Boston University School of Medicine. Osteoarthritis is caused…
Tag: rheumatoid arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease that causes painful, chronic inflammation of the joints, especially of the hands, feet, and neck. RA strikes women more often than men and…
What if you get high blood pressure? Can’t you just take a drug to lower it? “You don’t want to wait until your blood pressure crosses that magic threshold of…
“Fish oil delivers few benefits, study finds,” reported ABCNews.com in April 2012. The news was a meta-analysis by Korean scientists of 14 trials conducted on more than 20,000 people that…
“Anybody who has a family member with celiac disease or symptoms that are suggestive of celiac disease,” says Joseph Murray, a gastroenterologist and professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic…