Rheumatoid Arthritis News & Features
- Rheumatoid Arthritis and Lymphoma: What’s the Link?
It’s your arthritis, not your drugs, which slightly raise your risk of lymphoma. Find out why.
- 8 Diet Tips for Rheumatoid Arthritis Relief
Can food help ease your rheumatoid arthritis? Here’s a selection to add relief and flavor to your diet.
- When Men Get Rheumatoid Arthritis
Men get rheumatoid arthritis, though less often than women. Here’s what the symptoms look like and the treatments that are available.
- 5 Things People With RA Want You to Know
Here’s what many people don’t understand about rheumatoid arthritis. Learn what to expect and get helpful tips, whether you’re newly diagnosed or you're close to someone with RA.
- How Physical Therapy Helps RA
Finding it hard to keep up with your PT for rheumatoid arthritis? Try these tips to make it easier.
- Strength Training for Your Rheumatoid Arthritis
Strengthen and stabilize your joints with arthritis-friendly strength exercises.
- Arthritis-Friendly Workouts to Keep You Moving
Why exercise is good for achy joints, and arthritis-friendly exercises to try.
- Flexibility Exercises to Help Your Rheumatoid Arthritis
Fight joint stiffness and keep moving with stretching and joint-safe, arthritis-friendly exercises.
- Why Yoga Can Be Good for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Yoga can be a fun exercise when you have rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
- What Helps You Curb RA Fatigue?
Fatigue is a common symptom of RA. But you can prevent it, ease it, or work around it. Here's how.
- Complementary Treatments for RA: Acupuncture to Yoga
If you have rheumatoid arthritis, complementary therapies like yoga and massage may help reduce your pain, relax you, and improve your life. But it's important to know which ones might help -- and how to use them safely.
- RA Medicines: Finding What You Need
There's never been a better time to have rheumatoid arthritis, experts say. That's because medications to treat RA are better than ever. Learn about them here.
- Traveling Pain-Free With RA
With good planning and an easy schedule, you can keep your RA in check and have a pain-free trip. Try these tips.
- How RA Affects Your Overall Health
Rheumatoid arthritis raises the chance you’ll get heart disease and other health problems. Learn what you can do to lower your risks and stay healthy with RA.
- How to Get in the Mood When You Have RA
If you have rheumatoid arthritis, sex can ease pain, lift your spirits, and keep you connected to your partner. So don't avoid sex -- just take a little extra care to make it feel good. Here's how.
- Talking About RA: Who Will You Tell, and How?
Keeping your RA a secret can be more stressful than talking about it. Here are some tips for talking about RA at home and work.
- RA and Your Diet: Can Foods Reduce Inflammation?
RA pain and stiffness is caused by inflammation, and some foods have an anti-inflammatory effect in the body.
- Biologics for RA: Costs and Insurance
Biologic drugs for rheumatoid arthritis are effective, but costly. Here's what you should know if your doctor is recommending a biologic for your RA.
- WebMD 5: Rheumatoid Arthritis
Our expert explains rheumatoid arthritis and what's ahead for treatment.
- Ask the Expert: I Have RA and My Husband Won't Help
Our rheumatology expert explains how chronic disease can affect family relations and how one reader can get the help she needs.
- How to Handle Rheumatoid Arthritis at Work
RA doesn't need to keep you from your job. Some new techniques, support from your manager, and a little flexibility go a long way.
- Combination Therapy for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Many people with rheumatoid arthritis use combination therapy – taking more than one RA medicine at a time. Here are answers to common questions about using combination therapy to treat RA.
- Treating RA: Is It Time for a Biologic?
Learn about your options for rheumatoid arthritis treatment, including what your doctor looks for, and the benefits and alternatives to a biologic.
- New Drugs for Rheumatoid Arthritis: Is a Biologic Pill on the Way?
The latest on research and development about oral biologics to treat rheumatoid arthritis.
- Biologics for RA: The Risks and Benefits
Biologic drugs have turned the tables for people with RA. Learn more about how they work.
- How to Manage Depression With Rheumatoid Arthritis
Find out ways to ease depression if you have rheumatoid arthritis, such as therapy, support groups, healthy eating, and exercise.
- Sex, Aging, and Rheumatoid Arthritis
Menopause signals the end of fertility -- not the end of sex for women. Here’s how to deal with sex and intimacy issues through menopause, RA, and aging.
- 5 Things RA Can Teach Your Kids
RA can help parents teach their kids some surprising and important life lessons that go beyond with coping with chronic illness in the family.
- How Rheumatoid Arthritis Affects Pregnancy
How will having RA affect your pregnancy -- and how will being pregnant affect your RA?
- Raising a Baby When You Have RA
Many women with rheumatoid arthritis have a flare after giving birth, making newborn care even more challenging. WebMD offers tips on caring for your baby when you have RA.
- RA and Pregnancy: The Facts About Conceiving
How does RA affect your chance of getting pregnant? What about taking RA drugs during pregnancy? WebMD tells you what you need to know if you have rheumatoid arthritis and are contemplating having a child.
- Eating for 2: Your RA Pregnancy Diet
For a woman with RA, the best way to avoid having too much weight to lose post-pregnancy is to keep weight under control during pregnancy. Here are tips eating right when you are pregnant with RA.
- Losing Pregnancy Weight When You've Got RA
If you have RA, these exercises will help you get your pre-pregnancy body back faster – and take some of the excess weight and pressure off of your aching joints.
- RA and Exercise: Getting Fit at Home and With Your Family
Easy rheumatoid arthritis exercises to try at home or with family to help you move more easily and with less pain.
- Moms With RA: Helping Your Family Understand Pain
Parenting With RA: Tips for explaining to your children how pain, stiffness, and fatigue affect mom. Plus, parenting and family coping strategies.
- Why Does My Doctor Call RA an Autoimmune Disease?
Learn what makes RA an autoimmune disease. Get the facts as to what autoimmune diseases are and how changes involving your immune system lead to RA.
- How to Manage Fatigue From Rheumatoid Arthritis
Find out how to boost your energy levels if you have fatigue that's related to your rheumatoid arthritis.
- Getting a Grip on Rheumatoid Arthritis Pain
WebMD helps you manage the pain and damage from severe or chronic rheumatoid arthritis (RA), including treatment options for severe pain and other ways to cope with severe arthritis.
- Juvenile Arthritis at School: 504 Plans, IEPs, and Pain Issues
Is your child struggling with arthritis at school? WebMD helps explain 504 Plans, IEPs, and other ways to help your child cope with arthritis issues in the classroom.
- Rheumatoid Arthritis, Work, and Disability
WebMD provides answers to your questions about the potential impact of RA on your career. Find out what accommodations you may need and what to do if you can't work.
- RA: Best and Worst Supplements and Herbs
Some supplements are good for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Some are dangerous. Learn which supplements and herbs may help relieve rheumatoid arthritis symptoms and which ones you should never take.
- Diet and Rheumatoid Arthritis: How to Fix Fast and Simple Meals
Everyone wants to save time and energy in the kitchen. It's particularly important when aching joints from arthritis turn preparing a meal into a monumental task. Learn about fixing fast and simple meals.
- Rheumatoid Arthritis: Keeping a Positive Outlook
Realistic optimism fuels the body's immune system and triggers natural painkillers.
- Life With Rheumatoid Arthritis
This article discusses how aggressive treatment with new, sophisticated drugs can prevent disability.
- Is Your Surgeon Qualified to Perform Endoscopic Surgery?
Some tips to help you find the right surgeon to perform endoscopic surgery.
- Taking NSAIDs? Protect Your Tummy
Anti-inflammatory drugs often lead to upset stomach and bleeding ulcers.
- Is It Growing Pains or Something More Serious?
Your child’s growing pains might be something else, like juvenile idiopathic arthritis. Find out how to tell the difference.