Arthritis Today – July 1999
Ankylosing spondylitis: slow but steady progress in research
People with ankylosing spondylitis often wait for ten years before their condition is eventually diagnosed. But new arc research in Oxford tracking down the genes responsible for the disease may lead to new approaches to diagnosis and treatment. Dr Paul Wordsworth, of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, explains.
Run that past me again...
Professor Brian Henderson of University College is fed up with the inability of science to communicate to the man or woman in the street. In the first of a series of articles, he attempts to de-mystify the scientific jargon surrounding much arthritis research.
Scouse Nous
Football, the Beatles, Brookside; and rheumatology? Sound unlikely, yet Liverpool is a growing centre for arthritis research; with around £1m from arc in its researchers' coffers. And, much like the fortunes of Everton FC, the only way is up…
Pain – what pain?
Most people reading this will have had back pain at some time in their
life, and about a third will have experienced some back pain in the past
month, but have probably not seen their doctor. Even so, about 6% of the
population consult their general practice each year because of back pain…
