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Researchers have found in a new study that patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have a dramatically higher risk of ...

Dr. Kimberly Trotter distilled four high-impact disease clusters—gout, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), systemic lupus ...

The Takeaway While the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis vary from person to person, certain joints tend to be more involved than others: the fingers, wrists, knees, ankles, and feet.

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