A new type of treatment for osteoarthritis, currently in canine clinical trials, shows promise for eventual use in humans. The treatment, developed by Cornell biomedical engineers, is a synt... Read more
Injectable material made of nanoscale particles can deliver arthritis drugs throughout cartilage. Osteoarthritis, a disease that causes severe joint pain, affects more than 20 million people... Read more
A Prebiotic May Alter the Obese Microbiome and Protect Against Osteoarthritis Bacteria in the gut, known as the gut microbiome, could be the culprit behind arthritis and joint pain that plag... Read more
The results could open the door to new targeted therapies for this debilitating disease in the future In the largest study of its kind, nine novel genes for osteoarthritis have been discover... Read more
A new weapon in the fight against osteoarthritis? Researchers at ETH Zurich, Empa and the Norwegian research institute SINTEF are pursuing a new approach to treating osteoarthritis. This is... Read more
A University of Manchester biologist has for the first time established that the painful and debilitating symptoms endured by osteoarthritis sufferers are intrinsically linked to the human b... Read more
A simple an inexpensive blood test for the most common form of arthritis has been developed by British scientists. It is hoped it will be possible diagnose osteoarthritis up to a decade earl... Read more
Cells could be exploited to treat osteoarthritis and osteoporosis A stem cell capable of regenerating both bone and cartilage has been identified in bone marrow of mice. The discovery by res... Read more
A new ‘microcapsule’ treatment delivery method developed by researchers at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) could reduce inflammation in cartilage affected by osteoarthritis and revers... Read more
It would revolutionise treatment for the condition because it would not have the side effects of many of the current drug-based treatments for the condition MILLIONS of Britons could be spar... Read more