Painful monthly penicillin injections could be a thing of the past as Griffith University researchers, in collaboration with researchers at the University of New England, are investigating the benefits of an alternative therapy for children diagnosed with rheumatic fever.
Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a type of arthritis affecting people with the skin condition psoriasis. Flare-ups—also called flares or relapses—are periods where symptoms of PsA get worse. Not everyone with PsA has psoriasis, but psoriasis and PsA—also called psoriatic disease—are chronic inflammatory diseases resulting from a problem with the immune system.
Rheumatoid arthritis is the most common inflammatory joint disorder, affecting over 60,000 people in Austria alone, with women being three times as likely to suffer from the condition as men. While treatment advances over the past decades have led to the development of numerous drugs with varying mechanisms of action, many patients still fail to achieve clinical remission due to a lack of tools to help find the right treatment, leaving their symptoms inadequately controlled.
