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  • The Reversibility of Certain Rheumatic and Non-Rheumatic

    Philip S. Hench - Nobel Lecture 1964

  • She is a consultant senior lecturer at Bristol University and a paediatrician who runs the country's largest clinic for young people with CFS, at the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases in Bath.

    Study warns of higher ME rates among pupils 2011

  • Rheumatic fever was a leading cause of death in children in the United States before 1960.

    Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease 2010

  • Rheumatic fever is an inflammatory disorder of the connective tissue of the body, triggered by strep throat infection.

    Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease 2010

  • Rheumatic fever, an acquired disease, can cause scarring in the heart tissue resulting in mitral stenosis or regurgitation; symptoms may not appear until many years after the child has the disease.

    Mitral Stenosis, Mitral Regurgitation and Mitral Valve Prolapse 2010

  • Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America 28 2002: 419–38.

    SO STRESSED William Kent Krueger 2010

  • Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America 28 2002: 419–38.

    SO STRESSED William Kent Krueger 2010

  • I started Soaringwords nine years ago, because eleven years ago my oldest son Jonathan was ill with Rheumatic Fever for four harrowing months.

    Lisa Honig Buksbaum: Get Out Your Dancin' Shoes 2009

  • This was followed in 1963 by an award from the La Rabida Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases of the University of Chicago for her contribution to research on rheumatic fever and in 1967, at an historic ceremony on Mt. Scopus, by an honorary doctorate from the Hebrew University, together with then-Chief of General Staff Yitzhak Rabin and President of Israel Zalman Shazar.

    Helena Kagan. 2009

  • In an article in the Annals of Rheumatic Diseases May 2006 it was shown that patients who have degenerative changes in the low back, a decrease in the joint space between the vertebrae (bones in the back), had a four fold increase in knee degeneration.

    Dr. Brendan Murray: Will the Current Health Care System Cause You to Have A Hip or Knee Replaced? 2009

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