According to a press release from Eli Lilly and Company, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently granted market approval to Lilly's ankylosing spondylitis drug, Taltz (ixekizumab). About Ankylosing…
According to a publication from Ankylosing Spondylitis News, a recent study published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders suggests that LINC00311, a lengthy RNA molecule, is over-expressed in individuals with ankylosing spondylitis.…
You know the old adage that if you give someone an inch, they’ll take a mile? While it is highly unlikely that whoever this “someone” is will take 63,360 times…
Cuando uno es joven, saludable y próspera, es difícil imaginar que es posible ser derribados por una enfermedad crónica, como la espondilitis anquilosante (EA). Como muchos jóvenes, "M" estaba libre…
Could the microbes and flora of your stomach be responsible for the lower back pain you’ve suffered from since your college years? If the latest studies are any indication, your…
About a year ago, at the American Academy of Rheumatologists Annual meeting, there was a report presented about tofacitinib (TOFA) for the treatment of ankylosing spondylitis (AS). Tofacitinib (sold as…
El mundo le gusta una buena historia. Y yo estoy a favor de darle a la gente sus merecidas "felicidades" cuando han enfrentar a la adversidad y logró algo fantástico.…
Happy Labor Day Weekend Patient Worthians! We hope you can spend this weekend's extra time with friends and family while gearing up for fall! This week we have a post…
Props to medical professionals who make the effort to be approachable—and sometimes entertaining. A lot of us appreciate your efforts—even when they just come off as awkward. These two physical…
When you have a chronic illness like ankylosing spondylitis (AS), you get used to taking a lot of pills. And I mean A LOT. You take pills for the pain.…
Sometimes life can throw a mean curveball and try as you might, you just can't dodge it. Ankylosing spondylitis is one of those curveballs. For some people, it can lie…
Is it just me, or is EVERYBODY talking about vitamin D deficiencies these days? Suddenly, everyone I know is coming back from their health check-ups with prescriptions to combat their…
Confession time: I am a gamer. Not only am I gamer, I’m a dorky gamer (which I swear is not a redundant statement). So, admittedly, when I stumbled across this interestingly-named…
Okay, the Brexit-bound UK is going through a turbulent time, and Scotland gets a special difficulty award for being currently Brexit-bound against the majority of its people’s will. Face it, 2016…
Welcome to this week's Editor's Choice! If you're currently in the US, then we know it's hot outside-- but we still wanted you to get out there and raise awareness…
Welcome to this week's Editor's Choice Patient Worthians! This week, we want to spread some info on what it feels like to actually live with rare disease. Not just about…
Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) is a systemic arthritis that attacks the patient's spine. In most cases, AS starts with lower back pain that is present every day for at least three…
Are you a guy with ankylosing spondylitis (AS)? Then you need to know about this study. It suggests that men with AS are at a higher risk of dying from…
A year ago, Novartis let people know that its drug, secukinumab, had shown positive results in a Phase III study for the treatment of ankylosing spondylitis. Now, the same drug could…
Here’s some interesting news for anyone living with ankylosing spondylitis (AS): A growing prevalence in AS around the globe has translated into increased spending on—and development of—more reliable treatments. Persistence…
With baseball season upon us, we wanted to check in on our Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) celebrity baseball player Franklin Guitierrez, who turned misfortune into a learning opportunity, and rises like the…
Imagine que es un increíblemente feliz y activa 8 años de edad, que ama los deportes. Ahora imagina las rodillas y los tobillos hasta la hinchazón. Se mira hacia abajo…
People are not pandas. So as a general rule, seeing bamboo is not going to make us happy—a fact that is most emphatically true for people with ankylosing spondylitis (AS).…
When you’re young, healthy, and thriving, it’s hard to imagine that it’s possible to be taken down by a chronic disease, such as ankylosing spondylitis (AS). Like many young people,…
Asking for help isn’t always easy for people living with a chronic illness. We don’t want to be defined by our disease, but, at the same time, our diseases can…
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