How to Use rheumatoid arthritis in a Sentence

rheumatoid arthritis

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  • Why doesn’t rheumatoid arthritis have any medicines to help treat it?
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Her rheumatoid arthritis hits every joint in her body from her jaw to her toes.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 14 Oct. 2021
  • What does life look like for a ballet dancer with rheumatoid arthritis?
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The 35-year-old is a single mother with rheumatoid arthritis.
    — Christina Zdanowicz, CNN, 9 Nov. 2021
  • The drug was originally approved by the FDA in 2018 to treat rheumatoid arthritis.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 14 June 2022
  • Green tea may help prevent and treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
    — Carol Eustice, Verywell Health, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Her mother has rheumatoid arthritis and needs support around the house.
    — Margaret Fleming, ProPublica, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Jacobs depends on the drug methotrexate to treat her rheumatoid arthritis.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2022
  • This drug is approved for treating rheumatoid arthritis in Japan under the brand name Smyraf.
    — Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 15 Jan. 2024
  • But the two most common are osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The price of Xeljanz, Pfizer’s rheumatoid arthritis treatment that had $1.1 billion in U.S. sales through the third quarter, went up 5.5%.
    — Joseph Walker, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2022
  • In the case of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), women are up to three times more likely than men to be diagnosed with the condition.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Olumiant has been approved for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis in some adults since 2018.
    — Allure, 15 June 2022
  • The study could change future treatments for rheumatoid arthritis, Lahita said.
    — CBS News, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Rheumatoid factor is a protein in the blood of people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), said Bailey.
    — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 1 Mar. 2024
  • And it is now being used to treat autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis.
    — Raleigh McElvery, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2021
  • It's also been shown to be effective in osteo and rheumatoid arthritis.
    — Discover Magazine, 6 July 2023
  • The companies sell the drug for rheumatoid arthritis treatment under the brand name Olumiant.
    — Fortune, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Wolfe has heart disease, asthma and rheumatoid arthritis.
    — Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com, 24 Feb. 2022
  • The two leading types include rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis, of which the latter is most common.
    — Forbes, 13 May 2022
  • But also 75-year-olds with rheumatoid arthritis down to 18-year-old college kids with anxiety.
    — Rod Berger, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Barron has lymphoma and rheumatoid arthritis, and her immune system is weak.
    — Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 24 Dec. 2021
  • In other ways, though, the diagnosis did not fit any better than rheumatoid arthritis had.
    — Beverly Gage, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The prosecutor said the victim, who worked cooked and cleaned for an elderly couple, had rheumatoid arthritis.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2023
  • This can be caused by a number of things such as rheumatoid arthritis, of which pain relief is pretty much necessary for living a normal life.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
  • In some cases, rheumatoid arthritis can also cause deformities in the hands.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2023
  • But Humira grew steadily, starting with rheumatoid arthritis, and adding year after year to the list of conditions it can be prescribed for.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Her doctor ruled out rheumatoid arthritis, and a blood test didn’t turn up anything definitive.
    — Sara Goudarzi, Scientific American, 23 May 2022
  • The new drug, called Olumiant, was developed by Eli Lilly and approved 4 years ago for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
    — Steven Salzberg, Forbes, 20 June 2022
  • Genes identified in the new study have previously been tied to Crohn’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus, per Stat News.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022

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