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Hello and welcome to our new website and Community Blog! It’s been a long time coming! But we are confident this is the beginning of a dynamic new online resource that will serve the needs of...
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When you’ve just received a life-altering diagnosis, it’s common to be shocked and dismayed at the array of powerful drugs that may have been presented as the only options for treatment. If you’ve been...
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Adding to the growing body of scientific evidence pointing to bacteria as a causative agent of rheumatic diseases, a ground-breaking study, led by researchers at Temple University School of Medicine...
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Reports that the cost of sixty capsules of Minocin, the original brand of minocycline, has risen to $3000 in the United States has been cause for serious concern for rheumatic patients who depend on...
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Psittacosis, a rare form of chlamydial infection, was found to be the trigger for one woman’s debilitating arthritis. Very occasionally, a rheumatic patient will contact Road Back Foundation (RBF) with...
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Rheumatic patients often find inflammation decreases after eliminating gluten. The existence of gluten sensitivity has been debated for many years due to the lack of a definitive testing method for a...
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Rheumatic diseases affect women three times more often than men and innovative Stanford research points to gender-specific genetic switches playing a role in this disparate prevalence. A new technology...
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Experts believe that rheumatoid arthritis (RA) may be the result of a combination of risk factors, including genetics, environment and other co-factors, such as gender, hormones and stress. In the...
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The prevalence of thyroid disease in rheumatic disease patients has been found in one study to be twice as common than in otherwise healthy individuals and malfunction of this gland can blur the...
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Does your child have seropositive juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), also known as juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)? JRA is such a devastating, crippling disease, but have you wondered how your...
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Katherine Poehlmann, PhD, discusses the causes and treatments of Reactive Arthritis in this first installment of a two-part series. The second installment, to be published in early January, will...
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In this second installment on Reactive Arthritis, Katherine Poehlmann, PhD, outlines potential triggers, the immune response, and resultant chemical imbalances. She discusses approaches to help combat...
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Read Carol Lange’s personal and very detailed description of a rheumatoid flare; what happens physically inside and outside the body; what happens to the emotions and the capacity to fully engage with...
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Katherine Poehlmann PhD offers a comprehensive guide to yeast infections and how they may complicate and exacerbate rheumatic diseases. In this article, she discusses the prevalence and pathogenic...
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Susan E. Grober, PhD, a clinical psychotherapist and researcher, wrote the following article in response to rheumatic patients, new to antibiotic therapy, who want to remain positive, hopeful and...
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In this excerpt from her book, Katherine Poehlmann, PhD, describes the adaptive nature of mycoplasmas and similar cell wall-deficient microbes, called L-forms, and the role they may play in autoimmune...
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Katherine Poehlmann, Ph.D., describes the immunologic effects of acute and reactivated (latent) forms of tuberculosis (TB) and its global prevalence. She details the methods for TB testing, the typical...
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Katherine Poehlmann, PhD, provides a comprehensive overview of polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR), a common inflammatory muscle disease, largely affecting the elderly. She describes the prevalence of PMR and...
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Diane Aronson worked with wonderful, dedicated volunteers and served as an advisor, and then later as president of Road Back Foundation (RBF), from the early 1990s until 2008. During this time, the...
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Professor Emeritus Garth Nicolson discusses the role of intracellular bacteria and the relationship of such infections with rheumatic diseases in a Letter to the Editor (May 2017) in the Open Journal...
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