We start off December, the jolliest month of the year, with World AIDS Day, which has been dedicated to raising awareness of AIDS, caused by the HIV virus, ever since 1988 and let me just tell you why this is nothing less of a jolly topic for discussion in recent years. As you know, we at FindMeCure are dedicated to…
A while ago we talked about the different types of arthritis and we focused specifically on rheumatoid arthritis. And now we’d like to talk some more about osteoarthritis, as you have to be more specific if you’re looking for clinical trials for your condition – with 578 trials popping up when you enter “arthritis” into the search box, there are…
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) can be a scary diagnosis even with all the treatments currently available and all the potential cures being developed in clinical trials. Living with RA can prove to be a huge challenge as it requires certain lifestyle changes, especially if your symptoms are moderate to severe – but you already know that. Here, at FindMeCure we read…
In a previous blog post, we promised to give you more info about the treatments for rheumatoid arthritis that are currently in use, as well as other options such as clinical trials that show up in FindMeCure’s database. As we already mentioned, even though there is no “cure” for RA, the disease is shown to go into remission more often…
“Rheumatoid Arthritis has made me a more compassionate caregiver to myself.” This is how a patient on our platform answered the question “How did the diagnosis of RA change you?” Jessica came on FindMeCure to look for a cure for her severe RA, that has begun to worsen her quality of life to an extent that she didn’t want to…
Rheumatoid arthritis is vastly different than what we simply call “arthritis”, which in most cases is the most common type – osteoarthritis. But while osteoarthritis affects the cartilage that serves as a sort of a “cushion” between the two opposing ends of the bones of a joint, rheumatoid arthritis can damage a number of other body systems as well along…
