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Patients with inflammatory bowel disease may be twice as likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis than those without IBD.

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Federal budget cuts have created "a climate of anxiety" among medical researchers, says Maximilian F. Konig, a rheumatologist ...

Joints, heart tissues, and bones are some of the main targets of inflammation-driven damage possible if you have rheumatoid arthritis While medications can help manage RA, they may also lead to ...

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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 ...

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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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