The best food sometimes is the simplest. Provencal tomatoes are about as simple as it gets but boy are they good. This is a great summer side dish requiring few ingredients: tomatoes, olive oil, garlic, and…
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During the course of a workup for possible autoimmune arthritis or autoimmune back disease, your rheumatologist may order something called a HLA-B27 test. So what does a positive HLA-B27 mean? HLA-B27 antigen HLA-B27 is a genetic…
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Polymyalgia rheumatica is a systemic inflammatory disease that almost exclusively affects people aged 55 and above. How this disease occurs and why it more-or-less exclusively affects the elderly is poorly understood. Like most autoimmune diseases, it’s…
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Benjamin Bergen, Doctor of Pharmacy Candidate Class of 2018, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences In Fall 2017, a new inactivated recombinant shingles vaccine, Shingrix, came to the market to help people better protect themselves against…
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Most people think psoriasis is an autoimmune disease that only affects the skin, but did you know that about 26% of people also have psoriatic arthritis? Did you know that psoriatic arthritis is more common than…
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Does eating fish help treat rheumatoid arthritis? This is the question we will try to answer in this edition of RheumDoctor Journal Club. Rheumatoid arthritis is a common autoimmune condition that affects about 1% of the population. This…