Award-winning course for people with arthritis to run in Mountmellick

A six-week self-management course to help people living with arthritis will commence in Mountmellick on Wednesday 28 August.                 The Living Well with Arthritis course gives people with arthritis the tools and techniques to help them better manage their condition. The award-winning course will be held in Mountmellick Youth and Community Family Resource Centre and […]

Under 50 and living with arthritis in Laois? Conference to address employment, parenting and mental health needs of GenArthritis<50

Issues affecting people under 50 who are living with arthritis in Laois will be addressed at a conference on 24 November. Employment, parenting and mental health are amongst the topics for discussion at the Arthritis Ireland event, which will be held in Maynooth. Even though frequently thought of as an old person’s disease, 150,000 people […]

One In Fifty Down Syndrome Children Have Juvenile Arthritis

One in fifty children with Down syndrome have juvenile arthritis, more than twice what was previously estimated, according to a ground-breaking new study carried out by Irish researchers into the disease. The four-year project – undertaken at UCD School of Medicine in partnership with clinicians in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin is supported by Arthritis Ireland, Down Syndrome […]