ATLANTA, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- People who engage in no leisure-time physical activity can produce important improvements in health with small increases in activity, U.S. health officials say.

Moe Skoropad knows what it’s like to live with pain. He suffers from rheumatoid and osteoarthritis. He was diagnosed with the disease in 2009, but said he suffered from symptoms since the early 1990s.

Arthritis of the knee is affecting Americans at younger ages, new research has found, but shedding excess weight may reduce people’s risk. The preliminary studies were to be presented Saturday at the American College of Rheumatology annual meeting, in Chicago. Almost 6.5 million Americans between the ages of 35 and 84 will receive a diagnosis of knee osteoarthritis in the next decade, according ...

Knee Osteoarthritis is joining other lifestyle and obesity related disease such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke, striking people at younger ages.

SANTA CRUZ -- People with arthritis can now tap the benefits of tai chi, a Chinese martial art designed to strengthen the body and relax the mind.