Fighting talk on RA

The findings from the largest global rheumatoid arthritis patient survey point to a need for greater patient education and the importance of disease management plans, reports Dara Gantly from Madrid. The numbers are impressive: 10,171 patients from 42 different countries participating in what is the largest global rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patient survey ever undertaken. Some 143 of these patients were Irish adults diagnosed with RA. The global results were presented at a conference — entitled ‘RA: Join the Fight’ — in Madrid last week, which took place a day before the EULAR Annual European Congress of Rheumatology began in the…