Painful knee osteoarthritis is linked to higher mortality risk in women compared to hand osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis is a progressive form of arthritis which worsens over time....
Celiac disease and Crohn’s disease are two common inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) that not only share common symptoms but also part of their genetic background. In...
Sjögren’s syndrome may raise the risk of heart attack, stroke and pulmonary hypertension, according to research. Sjögren’s syndrome is an autoimmune inflammatory disease; the body’s immune...
Pleurisy (pleuritis) is a type of lung inflammation that causes sharp chest pains when breathing. The pleura is a membrane made up of layers of tissues...
We have known for some time that depression impacts one in 10 Americans, but experts have recently discovered that depression and anhedonia, which is the inability...
Lupus (systemic lupus erythematosus) can cause brain fog and memory problems. Lupus is a chronic inflammatory disease caused by the body’s immune system attacking itself –...
Dysphagia risk is due to myositis, dermatomyositis and polymyositis. Myositis is a condition referring to inflammation of the muscles. Symptoms of myositis include muscles weakness, tripping,...
Cholecystitis is inflammation of the gallbladder. The gallbladder is a sac-like organ located just below the liver, on the upper right side of the abdomen. The...
Vasculitis is just one of numerous inflammatory-related diseases, and while lupus also fits into the inflammatory category, the two disorders go hand-in-hand in some cases. Vasculitis...
Temporal arteritis, also known as giant cell arteritis or GCA, is a rare autoimmune disease, but for the roughly 500,000 Americans who currently suffer from it,...
