Arthritis News - 2001

December

• Weight Loss and Exercise Walking Reduce Pain and Improve Physical functioning in Overweight Postmenopausal Women with Knee Osteoarthritis 12/26/01
• Role of NSAIDs in Alzheimer's Disease 12/18/01

November

• Autoantibodies to GPI Found in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis 11/29/01
• FDA Approves Valdecoxib (Bextra) for Treatment in Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis 11/26/01
• FDA Approves Anakinra (Kineret) for Treatment in Rheumatoid Arthritis 11/19/01
• Prevalence of Osteoarthritis of the Knee is High in Chinese Population Despite Relative Thinness 11/2/01

October

• Association Between Treatment with Infliximab and the Development of Tuberculosis 10/19/01
• Inhaled Glucocorticoids Leads to Dose-Related Bone Loss in Premenopausal Women 10/9/01

September

• Reduced Disability at Five Years with Early Treatment of Inflammatory Polyarthritis 9/26/01
• Risk of Cardiovascular Events Associated with Selective COX-2 Inhibitors 9/7/01

August

• Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide (VIP) Prevents Experimental Arthritis 8/17/01
• Is Doxycycline Effective in the Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease? 8/17/01

July

• Folic or Folinic Acid Supplementation Reduces the Liver Toxicity of Mehotrexate 7/31/01
• Incidence of Antibodies to Double-Stranded DNA Following Treatment with Infliximab (Remicade^TM) 7/18/01
• Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) is not Necessary for the Development of Severe Inflammatory Arthritis 7/5/01

June

• Reduction of Collagen-Induced Arthritis by Anti-Coagulation 6/28/01
• Transcription of several genes associated with antigen-induced anergy are regulated by rheumatoid arthritis synovial T cells 6/11/01
• Parathyroid Hormone Decreases the Risk of Fractures in Postmenopausal Women with Osteoporosis 6/4/01

May

• Decorin-Deficient Mice Show Resistance to Lyme Disease 5/21/01
• National Arthritis Awareness Month 5/4/01
  

April

• Bone Marrow Lesions are Associated with Pain in Knee Osteoarthritis 4/19/01
• A Reappraisal of HAQ Disability in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) 4/4/01

March

• Constitutive Expression of Human Collagenase-3 (MMP-13) Induces Osteoarthritis-like Illness in Mice 3/19/01
• Estrogen Plays a Major Role in Bone Resorption in Normal Elderly Men 3/10/01

February

• Glucosamine for the Treatment of Osteoarthritis 2/19/01
• Infliximab, in Combination with Methotrexate, is Indicated for Inhibition of Progression of Structural Damage in RA Patients 2/2/01

January

• Synergistic Benefit of Combining Inhibitors of Interleukin-1 and Tumor Necrosis Factor in Animal Models of Rheumatoid Arthritis 1/23/01
• Estrogen Deficiency Induces Bone Loss by Enhancing T Cell Production of TNF-a1/10/01

*Arthritis news summaries and editorials are written by Jon Giles, M.D., Joan Bathon, M.D., and Clifton O. Bingham, M.D. unless otherwise noted.

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