Juvenile arthritis is a tough dilemma for doctors and parents. Most of the questions surround the medication and risks. Health reporter Marcia Fraser has more.

Arthritis New Zealand strongly urges people with arthritis to not discontinue taking their pain killer medication without consulting health professionals, in response to today’s New Zealand Herald article on popular painkillers increasing risks of hearth disease and stroke.

TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- Galapagos NV, the Mechelen, Belgium, biotech firm, said it began Phase I clinical work on an arthritis-drug candidate, GLPG0778, earning a 7.4 million euro ($9.6 million) milestone payment from GlaxoSmithKline. In an alliance on arthritis medication with GSK, the U.K. health-care major, Galapagos also completed trials of GLPG0555 on healthy human volunteers, the company ...

If you've got rheumatoid arthritis (RA), the single best way to fight the disease is with medication. Still, as effective as RA drugs are, they can't do everything.

A new study suggests joint complaints attributed to aromatase inhibitors (AI), popular breast cancer drugs, are not associated with inflammatory arthritis or autoimmune disease. Because of that, researchers say women who were primarily concerned about the threat of arthritis should be encouraged to continue taking the medication. The findings of the study will be presented Tuesday, Nov. 9 at the ...