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Words and Pictures brings arthritis to the big screen
The arrival of Words and Pictures to Canadian theatres this summer marks the first time we can recall that a mainstream film has featured a leading character living with arthritis. Popular culture has...
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Therapists – on the front lines of arthritis care
Patricia Palmer has spent a quarter-century as a physiotherapist in Ottawa. While at first she seldom saw anyone with arthritis, her caseload now stands at about 60%. That’s because the ideal...
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The long, hard road to a better place
“There aren’t that many of me,” says Jesse Robertson, 32, reflecting on a full life with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In London, Ontario, a blossoming artist at age 12, Robertson loved to paint, act and...
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Investing in discovery
When Dr. John Brumell’s project was published this spring in the renowned scientific journal Nature, it was a victory for arthritis research. Yet without Arthritis Society funding, it may never have...
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‘Basic’ research can defeat a complicated disease
Dawn Richards knows her arthritis. She works in a group that develops new studies in genomics and innovative medicine at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital. She is vice-president of the Canadian Arthritis...
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Escaping the hospital bed
A dire dilemma. When Rheanna Sidhu became pregnant in 2012, she had no assurance that the biologics she was taking for her arthritis would be safe for her unborn baby (research in the area was scarce)....
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Heading back to school can be a daunting experience for any kid. Yet imagine how much more daunting it must be for a student living with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). A new video aims to help:...
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Changing course for her future
The road that may lead 19-year-old Kelsey Chomistek to a career in rheumatology began when she volunteered (as a control) for a schizophrenia study in Calgary. That’s when researchers discovered her...
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Filling a gap in care
Matthew Sholdice has had rheumatoid arthritis since he was three. When the 11-year-old visits the Children’s Hospital at London Health Sciences Centre to see Dr. Roberta Berard – the only pediatric...
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Investing in discovery
When Dr. John Brumell’s project was published this spring in the internationally-regarded scientific journal Nature, it was a victory for arthritis research. But without Arthritis Society funding, it...
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Life changer
In the months before she found The Arthritis Society, Winnipeg’s Linda Murray was, in her words, “barely functioning.” Her rheumatoid arthritis – diagnosed a year earlier – had flared up badly, causing...
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Courage and inspiration
Abigaël Walker’s chronic cough, which started when she was three, had doctors suspecting asthma – and, during its outbreak, even H1N1. As years passed, her lungs worsened and inflammation spread. In...
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Volunteer pays forward the support she received
Arthritis Society volunteer Michelle Richard spent upward of two decades with frostbite-like symptoms in her extremities. In her mid-30s, the Halifax native was diagnosed with Raynaud’s disease – a...
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Aboriginal study yields telling result
Research shows that Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples have three times more rheumatoid arthritis than the general population. It also tends to be more severe: less remission, more joint damage. Factors...
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Lessons for a life well-lived… with arthritis
Mark Richardson was just four years old when he was diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis. At the time, his parents were told that he would be unlikely to live past age 20 – but with therapy,...
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