Hey,
A couple of days ago somebody posted a portion of something that was on one of the main arthritis groups pages. It said something about a researcher saying these diseases are more similar than we think and autoimmune diseases should be studied more together. Does this sound familiar to anyone? I really wanted to go back to the original page and read the whole article - but I am a tech moron and cannot find the post via the search button and searching back through the posts just has me confused.
Any help would be appreciated.
Pip
Hi Pip,I don't think this is the one you are talking about. But maybe...
http://www.niams.nih.gov/ne/reports/congree_rep/cj2006/justi fic.htm
Could it be they post from Lynk?
It's a long complicated article (at least for me
"Plans for the future include adding data on epitopes that are involved in autoimmune diseases and epitopes that trigger allergic and asthmatic reactions. Dr. Sette and his colleagues have also built numerous tools for analyzing and visualizing the data and for predicting immunity against different pathogens--all of which is publicly accessible on their Web site (see http://immuneepitope.org/). "
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=59936
Was it the one I posted about how the gene marker for auto immune diseases was located, and they are always in the same spot? The one where the Thyroid Disease Foundation and Diabeates F. and Arth. F. got together to do the research? Sound familiar?
I think we've had a lot of threads about things like this actually.
Thanks guys,
I think I posted that about a decade ago I had an adverse reaction/stroke/god knows what to being overmedicated by my docs. My brain just doesn't work like everybody elses anymore especially since I have a lot of short term memory loss. If I can get something into long term memory, I'm OK but if not, then I kind of run around like a chicken with my head cut off looking for whatever it was I needed. :-)
Over the years I've become very adept at 'cheating' to help me remember something I consider important. Now, because I'm a techno idiot, I tend to send myself emails of the article or whatever and file it under something it pertains to. It helps me learn and then I have a record of where I found something. And sometimes I get lazy. Like with this. If I don't have the time to send myself a letter I leave a window open until I do. And yesterday we had 2 power hits and I lost those windows. Jeez, six seconds and it would still be there but nooooo, I have to like work and stuff. Sheesh!
Go-Go - I have absolutely no idea how to even find my computers history. Hubby is on his way back home from VA so I'll have him look when he gets here. Thanks for the suggestion.
Deanna, the NIH one wasn't it, but it has a lot of neat stuff in it and I'm going to read the whole thing. I think I saw another post somewhere else where science geeks interpreted the data for us laymen. According to that article, they just do not have enough of the human info in the database; mostly just the lower life forms. But it does show that they are moving in the right direction.
Katie, can you repost that article link for me, pretty please. I am doing a lot of research into diabetes (hubby may have LADA - an autoimmune version that is a cross between type 1 and 2).
No, if my memory serves (and we know it is messed up) somebody posted about problems with their doc ?!?!?! or something like that and a lot of people jumped in to say that doc didn't know beans. The person who posted the excerpt posted about 3 or 4 in the same post. The excerpt that I was most interested in referred to a researcher who said something along the lines of "researchers tend to stick to their own specialties, RA researchers on RA, diabetes researchers on diabetes, Fibro on Fibro, but we need to start thinking about the similarities in these autoimmune diseases because the symptoms overlap". I wanted to track down that page and then see if I could find more stuff written by that doc/researcher. Whoever did the post really knew their way around the main arthritis sites.
Does this help?
Pip
No idea.. I would repost, however the article is archived in arthritis.orgs files, and it doesn't link right anymore - nor can I find it. SUCK. Sorry :(
This might be it: http://www.aarda.org/common_thread_art.html
I looked thru the board for awhile and then realized I could google it faster! I think this article originated on the John Hopkins site.
Here's the similar article from John Hopkins' Autoimmune Diseases Research Center: http://autoimmune.pathology.jhmi.edu/whatis_approach.cfm
I started a topic two days ago and it came around to a similar idea. I noted that there had been a study, called MADGC, but it had lost funding. Their webside is still up and they have one article published.
http://www.behrenslab.org/images/pdfs/madgc_ajhg.pdf
Lynk,
It was the second one! Thank you sooooo very much! (I tried google before I posted - like I said - tech idiot!)
Justoday,
That's just the type of study I like to read. Thanks. Figures the funding was cancelled.
Pip!