Telling it Like It Is

Written with passion and determination, Louise Bergeron shares an excerpt from a speech she gave at the Lupus Canada/CaNIOS Annual Meeting in Halifax this year.

People inherit more than good looks and gray matter from their parents' gene pool. Research shows that arthritis and autoimmunity are also lurking in the pool

Living with JIA can have many repercussions but with the advent of TNF inhibitors (biologics), stunted growth doesn't have to be one of them. Read Trevor's story.

What was the ACAP Summit on the Standards of Arthritis Prevention and Care all about. Participating consumers give us their impressions.

Lisa Cirella leaves the CAPA secretariat looking foward to continued collaborations with CAPA in her position as Director of Health Policy with Ward Health Strategies. Read her letter of farewell.

The annual ritual of inventory taking, cigar smoking and the anticipation of fishing the northern lakes mystified this arthritis consumer until the tug of the line reeled her in.

Mother's words jangled in my ears as I lay in the hospital bed, "Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis". I immediately burst into tears not because I understood what this meant, in fact just the opposite. All I knew it that it must be bad, very bad!

I am Brave: Children Living with Arthritis is a book developed by The Arthritis Society to give hope and inspiration to children living with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis [JIA]. Thirteen year old, Devin, diagnosed with JIA at years of age, tells his story.

Since Merck and Co. Inc. pulled Vioxx off the shelves, CAPA Steering Committee members have been asked countless times;how this decision affects their lives. The majority of us do not have personal experiences to relate. Do you?

A physiotherapist tells the story of how determination will open a therapy pool at the new YMCA in New Brunswick this November.