Supplement: Crash Course with Rheumatoid Arthritis :The Scientist [2007-05-01]


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Supplement: Crash Course with Rheumatoid Arthritis In 1987, Beverly Williams began a battle with rheumatoid arthritis. Williams was a 22-year-old newspaper reporter, fresh out of Virginia Tech, when her hands started to hurt. Her doctor sent her to a specialist who diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis. She took the news lightly. "But if I knew then, what I know now," she says, "I would have been devastated."