On this Doctors’ Day, as we honour the dedication and expertise of healthcare professionals, it’s also an ideal time to shed ...

In an aging society, the care of chronic diseases has become a major social burden and has imposed significant impacts on the ...

Osteoarthritis -- also known as degenerative joint disease -- occurs when the cartilage that covers the tops of bones, known as articular cartilage, degenerates or wears down.

"I can't do my daily life because my fingers are stiff in the morning"The stiffening of the finger joints in the morning 'articular stiffness' is a characteristic of rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatoid ...

Metabolic syndrome affects more than 58% of patients with psoriatic arthritis and is correlated with “degenerative and metabolic changes in the spine and entheses,” according to data published in ...

Physician-scientist Nancy Lane says you have to understand a disease before you can intervene.“Research really allows us to ...

The researchers developed novel contrast agents that target two proteins implicated in osteoarthritis, a degenerative joint disease commonly characterized as wear-and-tear arthritis.

Arthritis & Rheumatism. 2006;54(12):3859-3867. Degenerative disc disease is one of today's most common and costly medical conditions. Marked by the gradual erosion of cartilage between the ...

Arthritis usually occurs among older adults, but it's possible to get arthritis in your 20s. Arthritis refers to several diseases that affect the joints. Osteoarthritis (OA) is a type of arthritis ...

We’ve long blamed osteoarthritis on “wear and tear,” the price of a life well-lived. But could the cause be a more ancient ...

Arthroscopic knee surgery for degenerative knee disease is the most common orthopaedic procedure in countries with available data5 and on a global scale is performed more than two million times each ...

Osteoarthritis (OA), also called degenerative arthritis, is the most common type of arthritis. It affects over 32 million people in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control ...