TV doctor Kiran Morjaria warned BBC Morning Live viewers that inflammation pain may worsen during warmer weather ...

Generally speaking, many people experience some joint stiffness, which is often most severe when first rising in the morning.

Dogs are proving to be more than just our best friends, with a new study finding that we have important proteins in common ...

WHETHER it’s stiffness when sitting up from a chair or painful twinges when tackling the stairs, knee problems are a common health issue, affecting people of all ages. One knee-related ...

Cracking your knuckles might feel satisfying, but it often earns disapproving looks or even dire warnings. For decades, ...

Methods: Using a new technology, the multiplex immunoassay, 30 cytokines were measured in plasma of 65 patients with JIA, of which 34 were paired with synovial fluid. These data were compared with ...

Objective The present study aimed to evaluate the metabolic profile of synovial fluid in patients with knee osteoarthritis (KOA) and its correlation with clinical data. Materials and Methods We ...

1 Department of Rheumatology, Education and Research Centre, St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland 2 Department of Rheumatology, University Medical Centre Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The ...

Pulmonary edema, sometimes called "wet lung," is a serious medical condition in which the air sacs of the lung (alveoli) fill with fluid, making breathing difficult. Symptoms include shortness of ...

What is normal pressure hydrocephalus? The brain has chambers called ventricles (cavities) that normally contain fluid. This fluid is called cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). It cushions the brain and spinal ...

Standard pleural fluid culture is negative in ∼40% of cases. Culturing pleural fluid in blood culture bottles may increase microbial yield, and is cheap and easy to perform. Objectives To determine ...