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NBC Nightly News is doing an autoimmune series this week - Medical Mysteries.  Last night was lupus, looks like tonight is RA, tomorrow MS.

http://dailynightly.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/12/1010867.aspx

Thanks for letting us know!!

 

Thanks Suzanne.  I hope I remember to watch it :)

Thanks Suzanne- do you know what time it's on?hi wannabe   what time is what on... I saw the one last night, it was on the national news that starts at 6:30 but it was one of the last segments they did.  I was happy to see them talking about ai illness but in all honesty, it was less than informative.  Maybe because I live and breath ai illness but I didn't hear much use able info there.  I am getting my hair cut after work tonight but hope to be home in time to catch tonight's segment. Thanks for the time Michele- what  show.. Boney are you pulling wannabe's gulliable leg?who me..  What a reputation I have!yep i did not like to say but its all over town...     Hey- whoever's talking better watch out or it will be.... I love when I hop on the forum and find myself giggling. Thanks! gees   ROFL hey thats  same as me  as i am shrinking..
next week i will bash your knee caps whith my nose   yeowwwwwwwwwwwwwww nothing hurts worse then a bash to the kneecap! Makes you want to pass out and vomit!Suzanne - thanks for posting this, I had planned to.  I saw the one last night on lupus.  90% of lupus patients are women and the doctors are not trained to be able to spot it in its early stages, so the women are told they are crazy and making it up.  It's a flabbergasting admission for national news to run a truth.  Darn- my husband was watching something else and I kept having him flip to channel 3 but I missed the segment! It really wasn't that informative. Talked about how most people with Ra were women and that there were new treatments. Showed an IV and talked about how it was targeting cells. That's about it. Did show one lady who had been having issues and had been disabled but can now work in her garden due to the newer meds.

If you miss watching, you can see it on this website. I saw it.  Thought it was basically an ad for biologics.  Talked about new medicine.  No mention of AP.  Very biased. It was what I expected for a short news segment, but at least it is in the news.

Glad that woman feels better from her clinical trial infusion.   Hopefully it's not just a really good placebo.

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