How to Use rheumatoid arthritis in a Sentence

rheumatoid arthritis

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  • Why doesn’t rheumatoid arthritis have any medicines to help treat it?
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 3 Feb. 2023
  • And then came rheumatoid arthritis, which took her off the front burner for years.
    — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2021
  • Her rheumatoid arthritis hits every joint in her body from her jaw to her toes.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 14 Oct. 2021
  • What does life look like for a ballet dancer with rheumatoid arthritis?
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The 35-year-old is a single mother with rheumatoid arthritis.
    — Christina Zdanowicz, CNN, 9 Nov. 2021
  • The rest of my life will always be entwined with rheumatoid arthritis.
    — Longreads, 25 May 2021
  • The drug was originally approved by the FDA in 2018 to treat rheumatoid arthritis.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 14 June 2022
  • Green tea may help prevent and treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
    — Carol Eustice, Verywell Health, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Her mother has rheumatoid arthritis and needs support around the house.
    — Margaret Fleming, ProPublica, 1 Nov. 2023
  • My wife has lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, and had both doses of the Pfizer vaccine over a month ago.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 23 July 2021
  • Back in 2010 the FDA approved tocilizumab for rheumatoid arthritis.
    — Sara Reardon, Scientific American, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Jacobs depends on the drug methotrexate to treat her rheumatoid arthritis.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2022
  • This drug is approved for treating rheumatoid arthritis in Japan under the brand name Smyraf.
    — Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 15 Jan. 2024
  • But the two most common are osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The price of Xeljanz, Pfizer’s rheumatoid arthritis treatment that had $1.1 billion in U.S. sales through the third quarter, went up 5.5%.
    — Joseph Walker, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2022
  • In the case of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), women are up to three times more likely than men to be diagnosed with the condition.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Olumiant has been approved for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis in some adults since 2018.
    — Allure, 15 June 2022
  • The study could change future treatments for rheumatoid arthritis, Lahita said.
    — CBS News, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Rheumatoid factor is a protein in the blood of people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), said Bailey.
    — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 1 Mar. 2024
  • In the 13 years since being diagnosed with both rheumatoid arthritis and lupus, Leslie Rott Welsbacher, 35, has learned to live with both the pain and the cost of treating it.
    — Alice Oglethorpe, Marie Claire, 21 July 2021
  • And it is now being used to treat autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis.
    — Raleigh McElvery, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2021
  • It's also been shown to be effective in osteo and rheumatoid arthritis.
    — Discover Magazine, 6 July 2023
  • The companies sell the drug for rheumatoid arthritis treatment under the brand name Olumiant.
    — Fortune, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Those with rheumatoid arthritis had the condition for an average of 10.5 years.
    — Don Rauf, EverydayHealth.com, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Wolfe has heart disease, asthma and rheumatoid arthritis.
    — Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com, 24 Feb. 2022
  • The two leading types include rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis, of which the latter is most common.
    — Forbes, 13 May 2022
  • But also 75-year-olds with rheumatoid arthritis down to 18-year-old college kids with anxiety.
    — Rod Berger, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Barron has lymphoma and rheumatoid arthritis, and her immune system is weak.
    — Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 24 Dec. 2021
  • In other ways, though, the diagnosis did not fit any better than rheumatoid arthritis had.
    — Beverly Gage, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Enbrel, made by Amgen, is used to treat autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis.
    — Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2024

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