Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases: an update.

Most readers of this June issue of the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases will receive it in their congress bag during the 11th Annual European Congress of Rheumatology in Rome. This fact gives me, as Editor, a special opportunity to briefl y update readers on some technical features and some particular content issues. First, I am grateful for the confi dence in the journal from the scientifi c a...

Fasting and rheumatic diseases

Fasting is one of the important religious practices of Muslims, in which the individuals abstain from eating and drinking from dawn to sunset. Fasting is not obligatory or even not allowed, in case it causes health problems to the fasting individual. Rheumatic diseases are a major group of chronic diseases which can bring about numerous problems while fasting. The aim of this article is to revi...

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases Leaders Do sex hormones modulate the synovial macrophages in rheumatoid arthritis?

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases International Workship in Artificial Finger Joints

Scott, M.C.S.P., Dip.T.P. Sixth Edition. (Pp. 372; figs. 205. 40s). London: Bailli6re, Tindall & Cassell, 1969. THIS book laid out in excellent print is divided into three main sections, covering electrotherapy (direct and low frequency currents), high frequency currents, actinotherapy and other radiations. Each section progresses naturally towards the next sequence, and the whole work is punct...

The Rheumatic Diseases