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Arthritis Research Campaign
Copeman House
St Mary's Court
St Mary's Gate
Chesterfield
Derbyshire
S41 7TD
Tel: 0870 850 5000 or 01246 558 033
Fax: 01246 558 007
Web: www.arc.org.uk
Best time to telephone: 9am - 5pm, Monday - Friday
The Arthritis Research Campaign (arc), besides funding essential research into the causes of rheumatic disease and improved forms of treatment, also provides valuable educational resources. They produce a wide range of free information booklets for people with arthritis and material for the medical health care team working in this field. Leaflets produced include the following (but a large number of others are also available):
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Back pain
- Behçet's syndrome
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Polymyositis and dermatomyositis
- Fibromyalgia
- Knee pain in young adults
- Osteoporosis
- Paget's disease of bone
- Pseudogout and calcium crystal disease
- Scleroderma
- Sjögren's syndrome
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Tim has arthritis (written for children)
- Drugs and arthritis, general information about: azathioprine, cyclophosphamide, ciclosporin, etanercept, gold by intramuscular injection, hydroxychloroquine, infliximab, methotrexate, NSAIDs, penicillamine, local steroid injections, steroid tablets, sulfasalazine.
For a full list of the publications available, please write to the address above or see the full texts on-line on the website (address above).
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