Daily Archives: May 15, 2009

OSTEOARTHROSIS – INTRODUCTION

2009-05-15T09:48:57+0000">May 15, 2009 – 9:48 am

The rheumatic disorders are common, cause great discomfort, invalidism, and loss of working capacity. Perhaps the commonest is osteoarthritis or more correctly osteoarthrosis as it is not an inflammatory disorder. Osteoarthrosis is a degenerative joint disorder and evidence of this may be seen in joints as early as the twenties and by the forties 90 [...]

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ULCERATIVE COLITIS – DESCRIPTION

2009-05-15T08:03:01+0000">May 15, 2009 – 8:03 am

Ulcerative colitis is a chronic inflammatory disease of the large bowel which is not uncommon, affecting about 80 people per 100,000 of the population. The cause is unknown although it has been thought to be one of the auto-immune diseases where the body becomes allergic to its own tissues, producing antibodies which attach to and [...]

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