Psychology & Psychiatry
Anxiety and depression linked to chronic pain in children
Young people with chronic pain are three times more likely than their peers to also have clinical anxiety or depression, a new review has found.
Sep 9, 2024
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Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
Immunology
FAMIN or feast? Newly discovered mechanism influences how immune cells 'eat' invaders
A new mechanism that affects how our immune cells perform - and hence their ability to prevent disease - has been discovered by an international team of researchers led by Cambridge scientists.
Aug 1, 2016
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Genetics
Genetic overlapping in multiple autoimmune diseases may suggest common therapies
Scientists who analyzed the genes involved in 10 autoimmune diseases that begin in childhood have discovered 22 genome-wide signals shared by two or more diseases. These shared gene sites may reveal potential new targets ...
Aug 24, 2015
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Children have various symptoms within five years before MS diagnosis
Children and adolescents with multiple sclerosis (MS) have a range of symptoms, signs, and diagnoses within five years before diagnosis, according to a study published online Dec. 27 in JAMA Network Open.
Dec 27, 2024
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Arthritis & Rheumatism
How new therapies are transforming the treatment of juvenile idiopathic arthritis
The use of biologic and targeted therapies for children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) surpassed more typical therapies in recent years, according to Rutgers Health researchers.
Nov 13, 2024
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Arthritis & Rheumatism
Is fish intake linked to juvenile idiopathic arthritis?
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) results from a complex interplay of genetic and environmental factors. Past efforts to identify JIA's environmental risk factors have been restricted due to limited high-quality data and ...
Jun 14, 2024
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Arthritis & Rheumatism
Tackling issues in childhood arthritis
Rheumatological diseases can affect people during childhood, the most common being juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). As well as a need to generally raise awareness of childhood arthritis, there is also a crucial need to ...
Jun 14, 2024
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Rheumatic diseases associated with childbearing problems
A new paper in Rheumatology finds that rheumatic diseases can lead to reproductive problems, though some conditions have more detrimental effects than others.
Mar 20, 2024
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Arthritis & Rheumatism
Children get arthritis too, with life-changing effects—but exercise can help
Arthritis is usually associated with older people, but kids can suffer too. Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is the most common type of arthritis in children. It affects about 1 in 1,000 kids under 16 in the UK (roughly ...
Feb 28, 2024
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Arthritis & Rheumatism
Machine learning predicts response to drug for arthritis in children
Doctors might one day be able to target children and young people with arthritis most likely to be helped by its first-line treatment, thanks to the application of machine learning by University of Manchester scientists.
Jan 16, 2024
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Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) (aka Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis JRA) is the most common form of persistent arthritis in children. (Juvenile in this context refers to an onset before age 16, idiopathic refers to a condition with no defined cause, and arthritis is the inflammation of the synovium of a joint.)
JIA is a subset of arthritis seen in childhood, which may be transient and self-limited or chronic. It differs significantly from arthritis commonly seen in adults (osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis), and other types of arthritis that can present in childhood which are chronic conditions (e.g. psoriatic arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis). It is an autoimmune disorder.
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