Research With Dogs Points to Early Test for Arthritis

<p>FRIDAY, May 18 (<span>HealthDay News</span>) — A new exam that can detect and
predict <span>osteoarthritis</span> before patients knowledge symptoms was developed
by examining a joints of dogs with <span>arthritis</span>.</p>
<p>Osteoarthritis, a many common form of arthritis, affects some-more than 27
million adults in a United States. Early showing of a disease, which
causes pain and flourishing in a joints, would concede improved treatment
options, according to a <span>University of Missouri researchers</span>.</p>
<p>They pronounced their exam can be conducted regulating a singular dump of liquid from
a patient’s joint. The liquid is performed with a tiny needle.</p>
<p>“With this biomarker test, we can investigate a levels of specific proteins
that we now know are compared with osteoarthritis,” <span>James Cook</span>, a
professor of orthopedic medicine and a researcher during ...