Every day you use them. Driving a car. Signing your name. Typing an email. Holding a spoon or fork. These are a few situations that are made possible because of your hands. But when they’re aching, ...

Hand osteoarthritis is swelling and irritation -- called inflammation--that causes pain and stiffness in the joints of your hands. Osteoarthritis is the most common type of arthritis. It happens when ...

Symptomatic osteoarthritis (OA) of the hands was associated with an elevated risk for coronary heart disease events, analysis of data from the Framingham Heart Study showed. In a multivariate analysis ...

Relief could be on the way for people with painful hand osteoarthritis after a new study found an affordable existing drug can help. Until now there has been no effective treatment. The paper ...

Hand, foot, and mouth disease is very contagious and typically peaks around this time of year. Although experts say serious ...

We see in movies that people place their left hand on their chest during a heart attack, but do you know why this happens?

When choosing your fingerless gloves, don’t just look for gloves made to address the symptoms of arthritis — also consider ...

Head, Musculoskeletal Unit DEPM, and Head Rheumatology Unit, Alfred Hospital, Monash University Osteoarthritis is the most common disease of the joints, and often affects the hands. One in two women ...

WASHINGTON, DC — Adalimumab, a tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitor commonly used to treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA), failed to improve severe hand osteoarthritis (OA) in a randomized, double-blind, ...

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