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By Julie Eller, co-host of the Live Yes!WithArthritis Podcast
In the past three months, people in our country and across the world have experienced so much change. We have worked together by staying isolated at home. We have supported our healthcare workers by forgoing elective medical procedures, sewing protectivemasksand even joining those rounds of applausewehaveheardin the streets. We have come together to stand as a united community,vocally advocating for those at high risk,like the immunocompromised, elderly and people of colorwhoare disproportionately impacted by medical crises like this pandemic.Importantly, we have taken these three months to learn as much as we can about the novel coronavirus.On this week’s episode of the Live Yes!WithArthritis Podcast,co-hostRebeccaGillettand I interview Dr. Kevin Winthrop,and together weget answers to我们知道的一些最重要的问题一直在你的脑海中。Listen now.
Continue readingCOVID-19: What Do We Know Now?→
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Major victory for Ohioans as the “lame duck” legislative session concluded! On January 4, Governor John Kasich signed Senate Bill 265 into law. Ohio now joins 18 other states that have enacted laws that regulate the use of step therapy. With over 2.5 million Ohioans with doctor-diagnosed arthritis, this law will lead to a safer and more effective step therapy process for physicians and patients alike.Continue readingLong Awaited Victory in Ohio – Step Therapy Reform Enacted→
关节炎基金会的志愿者马特·穆尼承认，第一次参加过夜夏令营是孩子一生中一个重要的里程碑——对父母来说往往比孩子更困难。
“I think sending Katherine to camp was a little harder on me and her mom,” says Matt. “Katherine ran right in to play with her friends.”
Diagnosed withjuvenile arthritis (JA) at just two years old, Matt’s daughter Katherine, now six, is attending the Arthritis Foundation’s Camp AcheAway for the first time. Camp AcheAway is an overnight camp in Georgia created specifically for children who are living with JA.
Continue readingAwareness, Community and a Cure: Why We Give→
“Totally amazing!” says 17-year-old Lexi Narotzky.
She’s not talking about her recent prom or even her summer plans to study in California. She’s talking about last week’s visit to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Lexi, who was diagnosed with polyarticular juvenile rheumatoid arthritis at three years old, found her way to the NIH after she shared herstorywith Congressman Rodney Frelinghuysen (R – NJ) at the Arthritis Foundation’sAdvocacy Summitback in March. Struck by her narrative, Frelinghuysen invited Lexi and her entire group to visit the NIH and the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) so that they could see firsthand the research that is being done to combat arthritis.
Continue readingOne Story Can Change Everything: Visit Gives an Inside Look of the NIH→
