Author: Elizabeth Rosser, Associate Professor of Aging, Rheumatology and Regenerative Medicine, UCL

sweet marshmallow/Shutterstock Arthritis is often associated with older age, but it also affects children. One of the most common forms is juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), an inflammatory condition that causes persistent joint swelling and pain. For reasons that remain unclear, between 10% and 30% of children with JIA also develop uveitis, an inflammatory disease of […]

Actress, singer and makeup mogul Selena Gomez has been candid about her experience of living with lupus. Since 2015, Gomez has documented on social media and in interviews the effect the condition has had on her health. In 2017, the actress shared that she’d undergone a kidney transplant due to lupus-related organ damage. Then, earlier […]