Arthritis is a condition that causes inflammation and cartilage loss within the joint. There are several types of arthritis. The most common type—osteoarthritis, or wear-and-tear arthritis ...

Physical effects may include mild swelling or discomfort in fingers. While these symptoms don’t necessarily indicate serious ...

The indictment last week of a former Brigham and Women’s Hospital doctor for allegedly raping two patients brought some ...

The repetitive motion of running stresses your muscles, tendons, and bones. That’s not an inherently bad thing ... running doesn’t increase the risk of long-term knee problems like arthritis—in fact, ...

WH testers have confirmed there’s a reason these sneakers have thousands of five-star reviews on multiple sites. As Tina ...

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If you are diagnosed with Dupuytren’s disease you may also get disorders affecting tissue elsewhere in the body, according to NHS England. These can affect the feet (called Ledderhose disease) or the ...

More than 360 families of missing people have submitted DNA in a bid to find their loved ones since establishment of a samples database almost a decade ago ...

This image shows the damage to the hands of a 7-year-old girl who was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis by a biopsy at the age of 10 months. The photo shows how the bone in the affected digit is ...

There has been disagreement as to whether periarticular bone loss occurs in psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Bone mineral density ... Objectives: Firstly, to compare periarticular BMD around the finger ...

They both may affect the hands, but typically only osteoarthritis affects the joint near the tip of the finger. The symptoms may ... For rheumatoid arthritis, an X-ray may show the progression of bone ...