PAGE 2 ARTHRITIS RESEARCH ~ On the trail of a cure for universal crippler OF all the diseases that af- filet mankind, none is more common or painful than ar- thritis. The following arti- ele, reporting on progress toward finding a cure, be- gins a series on ‘The Great Cripplers,”’ private arthritis experts to urge the government to provide more such centres. Another is the increased un- ’ derstanding of the self-perpe- tuating inflammatory process that characterizes the rheuma- toid type of arthritls. LEARN ABOUT DRUGS A third results from new in- sights into how drugs work in inflamed arthritic joints. Early, encouraging results have been achieved with several new experimental drugs includ- ing two, histidine and cyclophos- phamide. Only a few doctors so far . have tested histidine, a dupli- cate of an amino acid occurring — in human and animal protein, bul ane researcher indicates it could have safety advantages. Dr. Donald A. Gerber of New York’s Downstate Medical Centre said he has treated 70 rheumatoid arthritics with histi- dine—almost all of them far ad- vanced cases, and has achieved encouraging, though still-tenta- tive, results with no adverse side effects. ; Cyclophosphamide, previously used against Leukemia and cer- tain other forms of cancer, ap- pears lo have a- unique bone- protecting action in arthritis cases, but can produce serious side effects. The fourth facior are surgical developments that Arthritis Foundation experts say were undreamed of a few years ago. One of the latest techniques invalves use of silicone rubber implants as substitutes for dis- eased finger joints. Dr. Alfred B. Swanson of Blodgett Memorial Hospital in Grand Rapids, Mich,, has re- ported the technique enabled a secretary with increasingly crippled fingers to return to an 80-word-a-minute pace at a typewriter, in the still controversial field of hip-joint replacement by metal and- plastic ball-and- socket substitutes, researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles are experiment- ing with-a relatively new mate- rial, pyrolytic carbon, The material first was used in the nose cones of space rockets to profect them from the wear By FRANK CAREY NEW YORK (AP) — Arthritis defarms limbs, inflames joints, inflicts pain and has done so be- yond history's annals. It bedev- iled cavemen and even the dino- saurs they fought. But almost overnight, to quote one authority, there’s optimism, “a sense of being at long last on the trail to the answers," ; An answer would be welcome. Of all man's great cripplers— cerebral palsy, cerebral stroke, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis—arthrilis 1s the most universal. It affects 50 million people in the U.S. to some degree. About 17 million require medical at- tention; nearly 3.5 million are, disabled. Arthritis’ cost to the national economy is $3.6 billion annually in lost wages and med- ical expenses. And Dr. William E. Reynolds, director of medical and scien- tific affairs for the Arthritis Foundation, chief voluntary ar- thritis organization, Says: “Efforts by scientists and doc- tors to find the answer to the arthritis riddle have seemed for years to limp along discourag- ingly on dead centre. But now —and it seems to have hap- pened almost overnight—most of the authorities in the arthritis field are feeling new optimism, a sense of being at long last on the trail to the answer.” Much of the optimism centres on newly envisioned possibilities of unveiling, perhaps by 1980, the cause of rheumatoid arthri- tis. The most dangerous, de- structive and disabling form of the disease, it* afflicts at least five million people in the U.S. The optimism is based on signs rheumatoid arthritis may be due to: ~A_ still unidentified, slow- acting virus. —A disturbance of the body’s normal immunity mechanism so that a person becomes danger- ously allergic to his own tissue. —A combinidtion sf the twa. : Further optimism ‘about ‘help- ing arthritis sufferers is based on four factors. One is the consistent suc- cesses at special arthritis clin- ics in controlling rheumatoid ar- thritis with conventional drugs, notably aspirin in doses up lo 15 tablets daily. This has prompted A great ogee gift idea... and ‘still "is in “the” _aboratary. stage! field and his UCLA. asscciates believe they have developed an improved, more anatomically correct version of artificial hip joints, already implanted in thousands of arthritics, mostly in Britain. 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