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Asthma Attack

These changes start before the well-known symptoms of asthma and are the earliest signs that your asthma is worsening. Some people with asthma may ...

Understand Your Child's Asthma Action Plan

When your child has an asthma flare, it's natural to worry that they're in serious trouble or wonder if they just need a tweak to their medicine. R...

Swollen Joints (Joint Effusion)

Gouty arthritis usually strikes suddenly, with severe joint pain, swelling, warmth, and redness, often in the big toe (about 50% of cases). Gout ca...

Symptoms of Psoriatic Arthritis

Psoriatic arthritis might affect pairs of joints on both sides of your body, like both of your knees, ankles, hips, and elbows. Pain and stiffness ...

Enthesopathy and Enthesitis

Tendons are the tissues that attach your muscles to your bones. Soreness at the back of your heel caused by enthesitis is sometimes called Achilles...

Using MRI to Diagnose Arthritis

In diagnosing arthritis or other joint disorders, an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scan can be helpful. Personal items such as your watch, walle...

Arthritis and Hip Replacement Surgery

Hip replacement surgery is a procedure in which a doctor surgically removes a painful hip joint with arthritis and replaces it with an artificial j...

Assistive Devices: Living Better with Arthritis

If you’re living with arthritis, certain assistive devices and changes around your home can help you tackle everyday chores with less pain and move...

Arthritis and X-Rays

You will feel no discomfort from the X-ray test. The X-ray machine will send a beam of ionizing radiation through an X-ray tube.

What is Gout? what Causes It?

Gout is a type of arthritis that happens when you have too much uric acid in your blood and it forms sharp crystals in one or more of your joints. ...

Understanding Arthritis: Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment

The supplement SAMe has been shown in some studies to be as effective for osteoarthritis pain as NSAIDs. Fish oil has been shown to reduce inflamma...

Antinuclear Antibody Test

An antinuclear antibody test is a blood test that looks for certain kinds of antibodies in your body. The blood test should only take a couple of m...