Public lecture (2013): Arthritis - a joint approach

Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
18 June 2013
Arthritis is a common human disease which targets synovial joints, causing chronic joint pain, stiffness, progressive joint deformity and disability. Researchers are investigating how this disease develops to identify potential treatments.
Speakers:
Professor Ian Wicks - rheumatoid arthritis
Division head and NHMRC Clinical Practitioner Fellow, Inflammation, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute.
Professor/director, Rheumatology Unit, Royal Melbourne Hospital and The University of Melbourne
Professor David Hunter - osteoarthritis
Florance and Cope Chair, Professor of Medicine, University of Sydney.
Rheumatologist, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney
Chair, Institute of Bone and Joint Research

[@judithodlum638]

very informative - placebo might be good for some but for me the underlying psychology is obvious - the stresses of unjust legal system in family law where courts belittled and persecuted me five years ago and took MY family home from me, leaving me as a female nothing left in life at 55.- my joint stresses have developed in my sleep (clenched fists affecting finger joints, my teeth grind and become infected, I developed asthma..
We cant change these realities and failures in the fabric of society overnight, but the health system needs to realise the reality of these changes to a person's health

[@notablesolutions4u]

Per the US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health: "...a high percentage of RA patients have systemic mycoplasmal infections..."