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Arthritis Alternatives · 12h ago

Finally! Rheumatoid Arthritis is NOT a Disease

RA  is finally being recognized as what it is:  a set of symptoms – a syndrome – and not a disease.  The importance of this admission is huge.  If RA is not a disease, as it is now regarded by most of the medical establishment, researchers can begin looking for an underlying cause instead of [...]
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Arthritis Alternatives · 1W ago

Why Were These Drugs Approved?

This article is by Martha Rosenberg, originally published at OpEdNews.com.  It reiterates a warning against supposed bone-strengthening drugs, like Fosomax, previously published here.  This is another warning that we dare not ignore. *************************** by Martha Rosenberg Like Vioxx, Merck’
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Arthritis Alternatives · 1W ago

New RA Drug Tofacitinib – The String Runs Out

An FDA panel approved another new pharmaceutical to defeat the immune system, for use as a last resort by Rheumatoid Arthritis patients who don’t respond to other drugs. The drug, tofacitinib, made by Pfizer, is expected to earn the company billions, just as some of their other blockbusters, like Vi
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Arthritis Alternatives · 3W ago

Heart Attack Without Heart Disease: The Chickens Come Home

Something strange and ominous is happening to young people, especially women but also to lesser numbers of men. They are dying of sudden heart attacks (acute myocardial infarction, AMI) without the classic symptoms of heart disease, chest pain or blocked arteries. They die quickly, as though struck
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Arthritis Alternatives · 3W ago

Biologics Can Change Blood Sugar

Because anti-TNF drugs (biologics) can change blood sugar levels independently, without the presence of diabetes, it should be monitored in anyone using biologics.  The possibility that those drugs can produce hypoglycemia – low blood sugar – may create an emergency in some users with an autoimmune
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Arthritis Alternatives · 1M ago

Mother Who Took on Monsanto Wins Global Prize

It is impossible to overstate the potentially lethal peril that pesticides, other chemicals, and genetic modification pose for our families and our kids. This is a story about a mother who lost her 3-day old daughter to liver failure brought on by the spraying of Monsanto’s Round Up on nearby agricu
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Arthritis Alternatives · 1M ago

The Anemia of Rheumatoid Arthritis

We get a check up at the doctor’s office.  Lab results show that the iron circulating in our blood, our hemoglobin, is a bit low.  We’re anemic. Iron is an important  nutrient that plays a key role in transporting oxygen through the bloodstream to all body tissues. It is a necessary and complex mine
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Arthritis Alternatives · 1M ago

Humira to Top Sales Charts

Now that the patents for Plavix and Lipitor have expired, the drug set to become most profitable for manufacturers is Humira, a biologic that is administered every two weeks at a monthly cost of about $1700. Here is the story from Medscape: Analysts expect the U.S. firm to report first-quarter reven
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Arthritis Alternatives · 1M ago

Depression, Anxiety and Rheumatoid Arthritis

A new study published in a psychiatric journal says that about 20 percent of RA patients are both depressed and anxious,  20% are one or the other, and almost 60% are neither!  Most of us are doing just fine thank you very much.  Hooray for us. Some big reasons for feelings of depression and [...]
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Arthritis Alternatives · 1M ago

Hi, Everybody — I’m baaaccck !

This is a note to my readers, who make this whole, time-consuming, effort worthwhile. I’ve been on a mini-hiatus from writing that is over now. First, I was slowed down by some problems with the website that I hope are fixed. Plus, I’m getting ready to move across the country and that has had me [..
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