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.
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.
