The hallmark symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are painful, stiff, and swollen joints, but this autoimmune condition can damage other tissues and organs as well, including the body's largest organ ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 76-year-old woman in what I thought was excellent health. On a recent coronary calcium CT scan that was ordered because of my age and slightly elevated cholesterol, an ...

Lung nodules are clusters of cells found during an x-ray or CT scan that appear as more dense or white spots in the lungs. They might surprise you because lung nodules generally do not cause symptoms, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... People who develop rheumatoid arthritis experience changes to their immune systems long before their joints become swollen and painful, suggesting that early ...

Signs of immune system aging appear years before rheumatoid arthritis takes hold, offering new hope for early diagnosis and treatments that could slow or stop the disease before it starts, according ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) commonly causes fatigue and pain, stiffness, and swelling in your joints. Roughly 40% of people also experience one or more symptoms in areas outside the joint. These ...

A new nanoparticle drug has shown preclinical promise in both preventing rheumatoid arthritis and reducing painful flare-ups, offering hope for a targeted, steroid-sparing treatment that calms the ...

CHICAGO, July 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- In honor of World Lung Cancer Day on Friday, August 1, the American Lung Association, in partnership with Olympus, is launching a new educational campaign about ...

1 Graduate School, Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, Harbin, China 2 First Affiliated Hospital, Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, Harbin, China Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a ...