Photo of hair follicles.

Some melanomas may start in hair follicles

NIH Research Matters |
Microorganisms on the skin.

A New Understanding of What’s Living on Your Skin

NIAMS-Related Article |
Photo showing neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs)

Rare Disease Research Reveals Why Immune Cells Go Wild

NIAMS-Related Article |
An illustration depicting an editing tool repairing a DNA strand.

NIH Awards $89 Million for Additional Projects to Advance Genome Editing

NIAMS-Related Article |
Photo of Dr. Angela Christiano, Ph.D.

Close to home: NIH researcher and alopecia patient seeks a cure

NIH MedlinePlus |
Photo of the Collaboration and Team Science Field Guide

Developing Science Teams Form, Storm, Norm, and Perform

NIAMS-Related Article |
Patient hoding shoulder and talking to doctor.

What is Psoriatic Arthritis?

NIH News in Health |
Photo of a Bangladeshi mother and child.

Targeting the Microbiome to Treat Malnutrition

NIH Director's Blog |
Illustration highlighting a bone in the jaw

Researchers grow bone at rib to restore facial bone

NIAMS-Related Article |
Illustration of a bursa in a shoulder joint

Beating Bursitis

NIH News in Health |
Photo of an elderly lady holding her knee

Understanding rheumatoid arthritis at the cellular level

NIH Research Matters |
A photo of heart muscle

Blocking a pathway to heart failure

NIH Research Matters |
Photo of Dr. Carter

Carter Serves as Acting Director of NIAMS

NIH Record stories |
Photo of Dr. Steve Katz

NIAMS Director Katz Remembered

NIH Record stories |
Family on grass smiling

Scleroderma

NIH MedlinePlus |
Photo of Carol Feghali-Bostwick, Ph.D. (left) and John Varga, M.D. (right)

What’s new on the horizon for scleroderma?

NIH MedlinePlus |
Muscle tissue of mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy

More Progress Toward Gene Editing for Kids with Muscular Dystrophy

NIH Director's Blog |
Illustration of bone tissue

Genes linked to abnormal bone density and fracture

NIH Research Matters |
Photo of Vikki Owens with her spin instructor

Fighting Fibromyalgia with Complementary Health and NIH

NIH MedlinePlus |
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Human skeletal stem cell identified

NIH Research Matters |
Dystrophin CRISPR

Gene Editing in Dogs Boosts Hope for Kids with Muscular Dystrophy

NIH Director's Blog |
First responders to a car accident.

Researchers Elucidate Role of Stress Gene in Chronic Pain

NIH Director's Blog |
IRP researchers discovered the reason that skin tissue (pictured above) heals more slowly than tissue in the mouth.

Molecular Factors Underlie Mouth's Head Start on Healing

NIAMS-Related Article |
credit: getty images

Mouth Sets Healing Standard

NIAMS-Related Article |
Dasatinib, one of the two drugs in the senolytic cocktail used in the study, is an anti-cancer drug. The other drug in the cocktail, quercetin, is an antioxidant found in some foods.

Eliminating senescent cells extends healthy life in mice

NIH Research Matters |
An older woman stretching her legs.

Intensive weight loss helps knee arthritis

NIH Research Matters |
Dr. McGowan

NIAMS Division Director McGowan Says So Long

NIH Record stories |
A microscopic image of liver tissue with bacteria

Gut microbe drives autoimmunity

NIH Research Matters |
Attendees at the recent NIAMS Coalition outreach and education meeting

Outreach, Education Meeting Strengthens NIAMS Coalition

NIH Record stories |
star-shaped structures

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Cryo-EM Star

NIH Director's Blog |
Aaron

Sharing a Story of Hope

NIH Director's Blog |
Illustration of senior rubbing aching hand joints while cooking.

Painful Joints? Early Treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis Is Key

NIH News in Health |
The seeded scaffold was placed on a torn rat tendon by wrapping it with a suture.

Repairing torn rotator cuffs

NIH Research Matters |
Roundtable participants included NIAMS director Dr. Stephen Katz (seated, third from l)

NIAMS Roundtable Focuses on Psoriatic Arthritis Research (scroll to fourth item)

NIH Record stories |
NIAMS recently hosted a symposium in conjunction with the American College of Rheumatology-European League Against Rheumatism Exchange Program. The program promotes the international exchange of clinical and research skills, expertise and knowledge within rheumatology.

NIAMS Hosts Fellows for Symposium (scroll to fourth item)

NIH Record stories |
Dr. Mark F. Gourley

NIAMS’s Gourley Mourned

NIH Record stories |
NIAMS Community Health Clinic staff with Dr. Richard Siegel (seated r) NIAMS clinical director and Dr. James Katz (seated c) chief of the NIAMS Rheumatology Fellowship and Training Branch

NIAMS Community Health Clinic Moves to Campus

NIH Record stories |
2016 summer students with Dr. Robert Walker

NIAMS Program Trains New Generation of Scientists

NIH Record stories |
A collection of waste disposal guides that have served employees over the years.

NIAMS Roundtable Focuses on Ichthyosis Research

NIH Record stories |
Illustration of a woman scratching her throat.

Spotlight on Psoriasis, Preventing Patches of Itchy, Sore Skin

NIH News in Health |
Illustration of a woman putting lotion on her face.

Keep Your Skin Healthy, Protecting Your Outer Self

NIH News in Health |
man and woman working on laptop

NIAMS Expands Efforts to Reach Diverse Communities

NIH Record stories |
X-ray style illustration of a skeleton.

Bone Risks Linked to Genetic Variants

NIH Research Matters |
Dr. Lauren Wood

Inn Celebrates 25 Years of Helping Pediatric Patients

NIH Record stories |
over of a publication A Year of Health planner series.

NIAMS Takes On ‘Language Access’

NIH Record stories |
Scanning electron micrograph of a human T cell

Autoimmune Disease Super-Regulators Uncovered

NIH Research Matters |
Illustration of 9 men and women of differing ages and ethnicities.

Be a Partner in Clinical Research, Help Others, Help Yourself

NIH News in Health |
Whimsical illustration of a heart being repaired by construction workers.

Fixing Flawed Body Parts

NIH News in Health |
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Role of Disc Degeneration in Pain Explored

NIH Record stories |
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Osteoporosis in Aging

NIH News in Health |
Illustration of 2 people playing tennis.

Osteoporosis in Aging, Protect Your Bones with Exercise

NIH News in Health |
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NIAMS Hosts Its First Bilingual Twitter Chat

NIH Record stories |
Illustration of the spinal bones.

When Your Back Hurts, Don’t Let Back Pain Knock You Flat

NIH News in Health |
Two NIH physicians CC/NLM’s Dr. James Cimino (l) and NIAMS’s Dr. John O’Shea Jr. are among 70 new members elected to the Institute of Medicine.

Two NIH’ers Elected To Institute of Medicine

NIH Record stories |
Audrey Lapidus and her son Calvin who was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder after months of inconclusive tests stumped doctors.

Clinical Exome Sequencing Detects Disease-Causing Glitches

NIH Research Matters |
Dr. Joan McGowan (l) and Dr. Marja M. Hurley (r)

McGowan Honored by Women’s Group

NIH Record stories |
A Stat3 inhibitor improved muscle repair in mice. The results suggest a potential approach to treating muscle-wasting diseases in people.

Controlling Muscle Repair

NIH Research Matters |
Dr. Kevin Briggman

Katz Honored by Austrian Dermatology Society

NIH Record stories |
Blood vessels (yellow) of children with SAVI become inflamed and damaged indicated here in red.

Gene Linked to Rare Inflammatory Disease in Children

NIH Research Matters |
NIAMS team members include (from l) Dr. Yan Huang Dr. Bernadette Marrero Dr. Adriana A. Jesus Dr. Gina Montealegre SAVI patient Elliot Schuman Dr. Raphaela Goldbach-Mansky Patricia O’Brien Dawn Chapelle and Dr. Yin Liu.

NIH Scientists Identify Gene Linked to Fatal Inflammatory Disease in Children

NIH Record stories |
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Katz Receives Lifetime Career Educator Award

NIH Record stories |
Former NIH director Dr. Elias Zerhouni (l) and current director Dr. Francis Collins

NIH’s Common Fund Celebrates Its First Decade

NIH Record stories |
Illustration of a family under a shaded canopy at the beach.

Sun and Skin, The Dark Side of Sun Exposure

NIH News in Health |
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Deyo Discusses Therapies for Low-Back Pain

NIH Record stories |
Illustration of a tick being grasped by tweezers and lifted from the skin’s surface.

Tick Talk, Block Tick Bites and Lyme Disease

NIH News in Health |
Crescent-shaped clusters of pink Merkel cells at the ends of blue nerve fibers.

Discriminating Touch

NIH Record stories |
A baseball pitcher throwing with cross-sections underneath of bigger bone under the throwing arm and smaller bone under the non-throwing arm.

Physical Activity Brings Lasting Bone Benefits

NIH Research Matters |
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Exercise Brings Bone Benefits that Last

NIH News in Health |
man on bed holding his hurt foot

Gripped by Gout

NIH News in Health |
models of genes

Arthritis Genetics Analysis Aids Drug Discovery

NIH Research Matters |
Hand of someone with rheumatoid arthritis.

Gut Microbes Linked to Rheumatoid Arthritis

NIH Research Matters |
Illustration of an older couple hiking through the woods.

Healthy Movements, Your Body’s Mechanics

NIH News in Health |
itch: detection and circuit

Who Knew? A Neural Circuit Just for Itching

NIH Director's Blog |
Illustration of a girl and dad sitting at the beach with their bare feet in the foreground.

On Sound Footing: The Health of Your Feet

NIH News in Health |
alex then and now

Meet Alex—Before and After NIH Clinical Trial

NIH Director's Blog |
Two microscopic images of mouse skin one normal and one inflamed.

Protein Linked to Atopic Dermatitis

NIH Research Matters |
Drs. Stephen Katz and Keiko Ozato

Katz, Ozato Honored by Japanese Government

NIH Research Matters |
germ animation

Your Microbes and You: The Good, Bad and Ugly

NIH News in Health |