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JAC Research Sessions

Kids, teens, young adults and their families from across the country are landing in Minneapolis for the second of two National Juvenile Arthritis (JA) Conferences the Arthritis Foundation is hosting this year. This week’s conference offers a variety of events and informational program tracks focused on education and connecting with others, including two research sessions that will take place on Friday, August 2. Continue reading JAC Research Sessions

What’s Important to Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) Families: the JIA Voice of the Patient Report

Arthritis patients have spoken: “We want safer, more effective, easier-to-use and less-painful-to-administer treatments that are less likely to cause potential long-term side effects. We need solutions to the challenges of dealing with comorbidities and multiple treatment changes.” Continue reading What’s Important to Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) Families: the JIA Voice of the Patient Report

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Researchers on the Path to a Cure – Spotlight on Dr. Jordan Orange

Chances are you haven’t heard of COPA syndrome. That’s because it wasn’t identified as a form of arthritis until 2015. So, what is COPA syndrome? It is a rare, inherited autoimmune disease that is caused by mutation of the COPA gene. It usually appears in early childhood. Patients show symptoms of severe lung disease and arthritis.

Dr. Jordan Orange was one member of a large research team that first identified COPA syndrome in 2015. The team’s published work in Nature Genetics won the Arthritis Foundation’s 2015 Howley Award prize for significantly advancing the understanding of an arthritis-related disease.

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Arthritis Foundation Knowles Lecture

Highlights of the 50th Annual Knowles Lecture

Earlier this month, the Medical and Scientific Committee of the Arthritis Foundation, Northern California office held the 50th Annual Knowles Lecture at the Mission Bay Conference Center at the University of California, San Francisco.

The Knowles Lecture was established with a leadership gift from Harold W. Knowles to the Arthritis Foundation’s Northern California office in 1966. For 50 years, internationally renowned scientific and clinical leaders from universities and medical centers have addressed leading issues in the care and treatment of arthritis and related diseases.
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