Grad Student Uses Her Disease to Fuel Research
Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 09:31
in Health & Medicine
It was in April 2013 that University of Arizona student Laura Hopkins was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, a chronic autoimmune disease that causes the body’s defense system to attack itself. In rheumatoid arthritis, which disproportionately affects women, tissues around joints become inflamed, resulting in swelling, pain, joint destruction and disability. No known cure exists. Hopkins’ experience with […]
