http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Study findings first presented today at EULAR 2013, the Annual Congress of the European League Against Rheumatism, demonstrate the efficacy of canakinumab at tapering corticosteroid (CS) use in patients with SJIA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-canakinumab-discontinuation-corticosteroids-patients-sjia.html Arthritis & Rheumatism Thu, 13 Jun 2013 04:54:58 EST news290318086 (Medical Xpress)—A group of University of Rhode Island students have been jumping up and down for weeks on a variety of playing surfaces in a study to evaluate how each affects athletic performance and injury potential. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-surfaces-affect-athletic-injury-potential.html Health Mon, 27 May 2013 09:11:04 EST news288864613 French surgeons have fitted 650 people with replacement hips that had not been certified as meeting European standards, it emerged Thursday in a case with echoes of a scandal over faulty breast implants. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-unauthorised-hips-french-patients.html Surgery Thu, 02 May 2013 11:55:44 EST news286714538 A prospective study by U.K. researchers found that adolescents who are double-jointed—medically termed joint hypermobility—are at greater risk for developing musculoskeletal pain as they get older, particularly in the shoulders, knees, ankles and feet. Findings published in Arthritis & Rheumatism, a journal of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), indicate that children with joint hypermobility are approximately twice as likely to develop pain at these joints. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-double-jointed-adolescents-joint-pain.html Arthritis & Rheumatism Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:02 EST news281208496 An itch is just an itch. Or is it? New research from Gil Yosipovitch, M.D., Ph.D., professor of dermatology at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and a world-renowned itch expert, shows that how good scratching an itch feels is related to the itch's location. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-body-pleasure.html Medical research Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:04:14 EST news246881039 When diagnosing and treating patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), clinical research focuses primarily on the joints in the upper body. However, research carried out by rheumatologist Hetty Baan at the University of Twente reveals the importance of including the feet and ankles when examining and treating RA patients. She also makes the case for further research into how the treatment of RA patients can be improved in practice in order to prevent unnecessary infections and damage in the feet and ankles. Baan will defend her doctoral research on 6 December at the Faculty of Behavioral Sciences of the University of Twente. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-feet-rheumatoid-arthritis.html Arthritis & Rheumatism Wed, 07 Dec 2011 07:40:29 EST news242466015