Arthritis Today - July 2005

Issue 129

Arthritis Today Issue 129 CoverNurses know best – and so do patients

Nurses and other health professionals are playing an increasingly bigger role in treating arthritis patients - who themselves are being given bigger say in their care treatment – and Bristol is leading the way.

GPs – can they manage the care of most arthritis patients?

A lively debate at the recent British Society for Rheumatology (BSR) Annual Meeting highlighted a current hot NHS potato – whether the majority of rheumatology services can be managed in primary care.

New developments in PMR

Dr Bhaskar Dasgupta and Jane Hollywood on the latest initiatives into this common yet little understood condition.

Pain relief after COX-2s 

Howard Bird provides a personal viewpoint on how to survive the post-COX-2 fallout.

Spotlight on science

Professor Richard Aspden and Dr David Kane explain their work in an ongoing series of questions and answers with arc-funded researchers

The brave new world of stem cells

Anthony Hollander discusses how stem cell therapy, tissue engineering and gene therapy are the way forward in treating cartilage degeneration.