Posts by: Kara Elam

Kara Elam

Kara Elam is currently working on her Doctorate in Health Policy. She holds Master Degrees in both epidemiology and microbiology. Her research interests include emerging viral diseases, the intersection of human rights and intellectual property rights, and ending violence against women.

January 7, 2016January 7, 2016

RA Treatment Long Used by Chinese Mountain-dwellers Found to Work in Lab

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Interesting research that drew on traditional Chinese medicines (TCM) may lead to a promising candidate for future treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. The study, titled “Identification of candidate synovial membrane biomarkers after Achyranthes ... Read more

May 20, 2015May 20, 2015

Researchers Study Methotrexate Utilization in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients

News, rheumatoid arthritis

Recently, a group of researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark released study results in which they found that rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients with high disease activity, older age or a ... Read more

April 10, 2015April 10, 2015

Hospira Announces Availability of Inflectra in Canada for Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis

News, rheumatoid arthritis

This week, Hospira, Inc., a global leader in biosimilars and the world’s leading provider of injectable drugs and infusion technologies, announced the availability of INFLECTRA™ (infliximab) in Canada. This was ... Read more

April 1, 2015April 1, 2015

Simple Lab Test Developed to Detect and Discriminate Between Early-stage Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis

News, rheumatoid arthritis

Researchers from the University of Warwick in the UK have developed what could be the first blood test that detects and distinguishes between two different arthritic diseases: osteoarthritis (OA) and rheumatoid ... Read more

January 30, 2015January 30, 2015

Cognitive Impairment is Less Pronounced in Rheumatoid Arthritis Compared to Fibromyalgia

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A paper presented at the last annual meeting of the American College of Rheumatology in November 2014, showed that patients living with a diagnosis of fibromyalgia (FM) exhibited median rates ... Read more