Hackensack Meridian Health’s Post

Improvement in outcomes for Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) is a medical tale of success for the 21st century. Tremendous advances in the understanding and treatment of childhood arthritis diseases, known collectively as Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA), in the last 20 years has resulted in earlier and more precise use of many new and effective treatments, which have truly changed the lives of children with JIA. Dr. Yukiko Kimura, Division Chief of Pediatric Rheumatology at Hackensack Meridian Children's Health, Professor of Pediatrics at the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, and researcher at the Center for Discovery and Innovation , is one of the lead authors of a new definitive review of JIA, which discusses its clinical manifestations, pathophysiology, optimal treatments and future opportunities for research, in the latest New England Journal of Medicine. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/g3BAWiaM #juvenilearthritis #jia #science #research