Fire Inside: The quest to understand & prevent rheumatoid arthritis

05/17/21 • 19 min

In the early '80s, Linda Sloate was a 30-year old mom raising three little kids when she became one of an estimated 20 million people worldwide living with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). It has been a 40-year struggle filled with dozens of treatments and surgeries. Today there is new hope for patients as researchers have come together for a collaborative project to uncover how RA begins – and how to stop it in its tracks.

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05/17/21 • 19 min

Lab Notes - Fire Inside: The quest to understand & prevent rheumatoid arthritis

Transcript

Linda Sloate

“Before I had this disease, my life was very, very active. I would water ski, snow ski, jump up and down. crawl on my knees. Work in the yard on my knees. I would climb trees to prone things. I would run after my grandkids or my my kids. I would run after dogs and then I get the disease and all that, all of a sudden stops. You can't crawl like you're used to. You can't jump like you used to You can't walk like you used to. That's what RA does to you.” <

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