ARTHRITIS: This Is Iat

Ralph J; Argen FACP FACR; Lawrence A. Murray [Editor]; Argen [Illustrator];

ISBN 10: 0976659905 / ISBN 13: 9780976659907

Published by Sts. Jude imPress, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: ARTHRITIS: This Is Iat
• Publisher: Sts. Jude imPress
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0976659905
• ISBN 13: 9780976659907
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Argen
• Condition: Used: Good

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Synopsis

Dr. Argen has written a comprehensive account of Rheumatology, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Inflammatory Synovitis. He travels their paths by mixing and intermixing Past, Present and Future via excursions into: high-technology s new drugs and agencies; a historical look into a primitive science that s become Rheumatology; Fads and Fallacies for therapeutic treatment of arthritis; detailed inspection of the clinical advances of the 1890s, the first half of the 20th century and then an inspection of each decade from 1950 to 2005; clinical histories of scores of famous drugs and herbal-hopefuls from aspirin to Cortisone to gold to DMSO to Thalidomide to Acupuncture and finally to DMARDs, NSAIDs and today's high-promise Anti-TNFs and VIOXX. He asks: "If the cause of arthritis is truly being found within joint tissue, does that point a way to discovering what causes infections and, more importantly, what causes cancer?"

About the Author

Dr. Argen s Rheumatological experience is so wide-ranging, only glimpses of it can be fitted onto a back-cover * Clinical Professor of Medicine: SUNY * Buffalo * President of the Erie County Medical Society 1975 * President of the Arthritis Foundation of Western New York 1983 and 1984 * Board of Directors of Arthritis Foundation of the Carolinas 2004 * President of the Hilton Head section of the Arthritis Foundation *Television Host of a past weekly television program, "Straight Talk on Arthritis. * Science Advisory Council U. of Notre Dame for 10 years * Active as president or board member of many medical society and public and hospital organizations. * Commanded a National Guard medical battalion. His scores of Rheumatology publications began in 1962 and continue in 2005. As will be detected within this book part treatise, part history, part analysis, part clinical, part detection-story and part recommendation Dr. Argen has long led the fight to turn rheumatological doctoring and into the specialty it now is. He continues the fight to ward off manufacturer s fears that take needed drugs off their lists; decry legalistic gain-getters; and propose that a small fraction of the huge Medical-house As-budgets be devoted to Rheumatological Fellowships now that the scent of CURE is in the air.