Under the spotlight
Moving from education into the workplace has a unique set of challenges for young people with arthritis, explains Dr Janet E McDonagh
Our expectation of milestones we should reach when we are young is fairly rigid. School exams lead to work, perhaps with a stint at college or university in between. In general, it’s pretty straightforward… unless you have a chronic health condition. And one that’s invisible to everyone else can be more challenging still.
A rare but treatable collection of conditions, Prof Hector Chinoy discusses myositis
Myositis is a rare autoimmune disease that involves an abnormal immune reaction against the body’s own organs, most commonly muscle, skin and lungs, which leads to inflammation.
The main symptoms are muscle weakness, pain, fatigue, rashes and shortness of breath. This usually gets slowly worse over time.
Smartphones are changing health research in arthritis, reports Prof William Dixon
Many patients with long-term health conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis struggle with chronic pain. But recognising what factors affect chronic pain has never been easy. At the Centre for Epidemiology Versus Arthritis at the University of Manchester we strive to find new, innovative ways to improve the lives of people with musculoskeletal disease though our research.
Our understanding of the links between heart disease and rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases is improving outcomes, explains Prof Maya Buch
Research is looking at possible links between genes, rheumatic and musculoskeletal disease and cardiovascular disease. Scans identify people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases who are at risk of cardiovascular diseases.
