Every 7 years I take a test to maintain my medical board certification. This test is prepared by the American Board of Family Medicine. The last time I took the test I clearly remember a multiple choice question regarding osteoarthritis. The choice...
There is an air of desperation surrounding treatment for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). With every new failure to come up with a drug that can reliably prevent progression of the disease, medicine grows bolder, experimenting with ever more powerful--and...
I have been trying to figure out how to fight a standard medical procedure, the examination of the genitals of children during routine physical examinations, barring any obvious medical problems. ...
Then there was the reader last time who has vertical ridges on her fingernails and horizontal ones on her toenails. What do these signify? They can be caused by a vitamin B deficiency, severe stress or it could indicate a tendency for arthritis...
I seem to have contracted polymyalgia rheumatica, a type of arthritis that affects the muscles, but not the bones or joints. It’s causing the muscles in the backs of my legs to ache badly when I walk or sit for more than a few minutes. It also...
More evidence is accumulating on the link between rubella immunization and the development of arthralgia or arthritis. ...
When I was 18, doctors discovered that I had ankylosing spondylitis, a form of arthritis that destroys the spine and all the major joints of the body. ...
Lectins, the carbohydrate binding proteins present in most plants, could be the cause of many chronic diseases, according to British allergist David Freed. ...
What could be done for one reader's mother who has been diagnosed with Reynauds syndrome? She also suffers from arthritis, and it's believed there is an association between the two conditions. One reader tells us he developed the condition after...
The second National Academy of Science Institute of Medicine report on vaccines again has concluded that virtually all the vaccines given children have been proven to cause damage.
Ray Sahelian MD
What Doctors Don't Tell You