An article describes a new medical study about prayer: When devout "healers" prayed for the health of arthritic patients--without the patients' knowledge--the patients' health improved.

A diuretic for high blood pressure can precipitate a fall by causing low blood pressure, or it can lead to incontinence in a slow-moving, arthritic patient who cannot get to the toilet in time.

And in spite of the nurses who walked her back and forth, she had grown stooped, and her hands bent down and out at the wrists, like those of an arthritic patient.

There is some clinical evidence for the benefits of CFAs, which may contain cetyl myristoleate, in arthritic patients.

The replacement of the meniscus permits the arthritic patient to have improved pain relief and knee joint function as well as delay or avoid the time for artificial joint replacement.

The only known clinical use of osmium appears to be for synovectomy in arthritic patients in Scandinavia.

All were prescribed as painkillers, with both Zomax and Opren widely prescribed for arthritic patients.

He turned his head painfully, like an arthritic patient, as if inviting Dalgliesh to buy a copy.

Another study recorded the symptoms experienced by arthritic patients, along with weather conditions over a 15-month period.

Survival data from a recent, long-term follow-up study shows that meniscal transplantation is also successful in older, arthritic patients with a success rate of 89.4% (42 of 47 transplants) at an average of 4.4 years.