rheumatic
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Appeal letters from the company related to rheumatic conditions, where it’s had the most experience so far, have about an 82% success rate, Veigulis said.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 21, 2025
However, in 12-30 percent of rheumatic arthritis patients pain persists while they have minimal joint inflammation or even are in remission.
From Science Daily • Nov. 8, 2023
Currently there is no vaccine available to protect against group A strep, which can also cause rheumatic fever and scarlet fever.
From BBC • Oct. 6, 2023
She pointed to rheumatic fever, an inflammatory reaction to untreated strep throat –- especially before antibiotics were common — that scars the heart’s valves.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 9, 2023
He had rheumatic fever, chicken pox, pneumonia three or four more times, started coughing blood when he was six, was anemic, drowsy all the time, constantly sniffling, weak and miserable, and—everybody thought— dying.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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