   Click on the names below for more info Now aged four, Arabella Wallwork has suffered from arthritis since she was just 18 months old but she is still up for a challenge! Caitlin Thackray is aged five and her arthritis was triggered by a viral infection when she was only two years old. After years of painful struggle, Elice Corner's life was turned around when she started taking etanercept, one of the new anti-TNF therapies developed by arc scientists. Oliver Hankinson was only four when he developed arthritis; suffering so much pain and swelling in his left knee that he could barely walk. Now five, Honor Byrne from Dumbarton has had arthritis since she was about 16 months old. Although she still occasionally needs to use her pram, medication and physiotherapy mean that Honor is making good progress. |
  arc funds a great deal of research into different types of arthritis and musculoskeletal disease that affect children, from childhood arthritis (juvenile idiopathic arthritis or JIA) to muscle-wasting conditions and bone-thinning diseases. As well as funding research that is leading to better clinical care and treatment of affected youngsters, arc also funds research to try to establish the cause of these crippling conditions so that ultimately we can find a cure. A great success of recent years was arc's discovery of a new class of drugs called anti-TNF therapy which has transformed the lives of hundreds of children with arthritis.  Click below to read about some examples of what arc funds at the moment. |
