Can tight control of early RA help you feel a lot better and reduce joint damage?

[Guest guest]

Special Report from American College of Rheumatology's 2003 Meeting: Can

tight control of early RA - with a target - help you feel a lot better

and reduce joint damage?

(December 28, 2003)

Theodore R. Fields, MD, FACP

Internet Project Director, HSS Division of Rheumatology

Director, HSS Rheumatology Faculty Practice Plan

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Weill Medical College of

Cornell University

Certainly we assume your doctor is doing his or her best to treat your

rheumatoid arthritis (RA) according to current standards of medical

care. But over time - in many diseases - new standards of care gradually

arise. For a long time, there has been debate about how aggressively

rheumatoid arthritis should be treated. Is it time to define a new

standard?

http://rheumatology.hss.edu/pat/specialReports/fields_tightControlRA.asp

I'll tell you where to go!

Mayo Clinic in Rochester

http://www.mayoclinic.org/rochester

s Hopkins Medicine

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org