How to Use rheumatoid arthritis in a Sentence

rheumatoid arthritis

noun
  • 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
  • Years ago, gold was used to treat rheumatoid arthritis.
    Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • Adams had originally set out to find a cure for rheumatoid arthritis.
    David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2020
  • Rheumatoid factor is a protein in the blood of people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), said Bailey.
    Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 1 Mar. 2024
  • In addition to malaria, the two drugs are shown to be safe and effective for rheumatoid arthritis and lupus.
    Andrew Joseph, STAT, 17 June 2020
  • Weaver has rheumatoid arthritis and has always used sanitizing wipes to clean her seat and tray.
    Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 24 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • In the early stages, rheumatoid arthritis is often limited to the smaller joints.
    Beth Krietsch, SELF, 26 Aug. 2020
  • The companies sell the drug for rheumatoid arthritis treatment under the brand name Olumiant.
    Fortune, 3 Mar. 2022
  • These drugs are used to treat plaque psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
  • AbbVie is best known for its blockbuster drug – Humira – used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn’s disease, among others.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024

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