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Walking speed before hip replacement predicts long-term recovery success

Total hip arthroplasty (hip replacement) is a common treatment for hip osteoarthritis, a degenerative joint disease caused by cartilage in the hip joint wearing down.

1 Dec 2025

Understanding the impact of chikungunya on children

Chikungunya is a vector-borne disease that affects both adults and children. While global efforts are ongoing to tackle chikungunya in adults, progress in addressing pediatric chikungunya remains inadequate.

10 Oct 2025

Comprehensive treatment approach helps patients manage rheumatoid arthritis

Although rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease with no cure, a tailored, multidisciplinary treatment approach at Cedars-Sinai's Inflammatory Arthritis Clinical Center helps patients get back to the activities they enjoy.

7 May 2025

Vimseltinib gains FDA approval for treating tenosynovial giant cell tumor

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved vimseltinib (RomvimzaTM) for adult patients with a rare condition called tenosynovial giant cell tumor (TGCT). TGCT is a tumor of the tissue that lines the joints.

20 Feb 2025

U.S. mosquito species show minimal risk of spreading Oropouche virus, study finds

US mosquito species exhibit minimal competence for transmitting Oropouche virus (OROV), with low infection and transmission rates across tested populations, suggesting limited potential for local outbreaks despite rising imported cases.

22 Jan 2025

Global Commission proposes new framework for obesity diagnosis and treatment

A global Commission, published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology and endorsed by 75 medical organizations around the world, presents a novel, nuanced approach to diagnose obesity, based on other measures of excess body fat in addition to body mass index (BMI), and objective signs and symptoms of ill health at the individual level.

15 Jan 2025

Researchers identify protein linked to cardiovascular health in progeria

A new University of Maryland-led discovery could spur the development of new and improved treatments for Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS), a rare genetic disorder with no known cure that causes accelerated aging in children.

18 Oct 2024

Study reveals unconscious fear of exercise in knee osteoarthritis patients

Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a common cause of pain and joint stiffness. And while physical activity is known to ease symptoms, only one in 10 people regularly exercise.

11 Jun 2024

Yale scientists identify drug target that may alleviate joint degeneration in osteoarthritis

Yale researchers have identified a drug target that may alleviate joint degeneration associated with osteoarthritis, a debilitating condition that afflicts as many as 30 million people in the United States alone, which they report on Jan. 3 in the journal Nature.

3 Jan 2024

How does nutrition influence osteoarthritis prevention and management?

The influence of nutrition on osteoarthritis (OA).

16 Oct 2023

New AI tool could aid in the diagnosis of enigmatic rare diseases

An innovative AI-based tool leverages varied symptom descriptions, along with evidence from the scientific literature and genomic datasets, to pinpoint disease-associated gene variants.

10 Oct 2023

How does Helicobacter pylori infection influence rheumatoid arthritis?

The association between Helicobacter pylori infection and rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

15 Sep 2023

New tool can identify psoriasis patients at risk for psoriatic arthritis

In research published in Arthritis & Rheumatology, investigators developed and validated a tool called PRESTO that identifies patients with psoriasis who face an elevated risk for developing psoriatic arthritis and may therefore benefit from preventive therapies.

9 Aug 2023

$3.1 million NIH grant helps study how ankle properties change after a stroke

A close look at how the ankle functions after a stroke could ultimately improve the mobility and rehabilitation outcomes for more than 40 million stroke survivors worldwide who experience persistent walking difficulties.

5 Jun 2023

Moderna's bivalent boosters trigger strong antibody response against latest subvariants

Moderna reports the efficacy of a bivalent COVID-19 vaccine booster dose.

14 Nov 2022

Understanding the link between stiffness in triceps surae and passive stiffness of ankle joint

Joint flexibility is an important measure of physical fitness in humans, especially when it comes to determining athletic performance.

3 Oct 2022

‘Hypervitaminosis D’ is on the rise and linked to serious health issues

'Overdosing' on vitamin D supplements is both possible and harmful, warn doctors in the journal BMJ Case Reports after they treated a man who needed hospital admission for his excessive vitamin D intake.

6 Jul 2022

NCCN publishes new guidelines for managing patients with Graft-Versus-Host Disease

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network today announced the publication of new NCCN Guidelines for Patients: Graft-Versus-Host Disease (GVHD).

10 Jan 2022

Many long-haul COVID-19 patients may experience breathing issues, chronic fatigue syndrome

Many long-haul COVID-19 patients have chronic fatigue syndrome and other breathing issues months after their initial COVID-19 diagnosis, according to study in JACC: Heart Failure, which is the first of its kind to identify a correlation between long-haul COVID-19 and chronic fatigue syndrome.

29 Nov 2021

Virtual exercise program can be safe for people with osteoarthritis, research finds

New research presented this week at ACR Convergence, the American College of Rheumatology's annual meeting, found that a virtual exercise program can be safe for people with musculoskeletal conditions, improved their health outcomes, and helped them feel more socially connected, an important benefit during the pandemic when many people have chosen to avoid in-person exercise classes.

2 Nov 2021