OKLAHOMA CITY ( KFOR ) – Aching knees, hips and hands are nothing new to those with Osteoarthritis, but a new study in Oklahoma focuses on the bloodstream with the hopes of finding out why some get it and others don’t.
Scientists at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) are digging deep into the disease that affects about 600 million people world wide with the hope of someday being able to prevent it.
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“My lab has previously worked on discovering traces of bacteria within joints that change when you develop osteoarthritis and things like that,” OMRF arthritis research program director Matlock Jeffries, M.D. said. “But the question is how they get there.”
That’s the $400,000 question for Jeffries and the OMRF right now. His work was catapulted by a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for that amount of money and their plan is to look at the bloodstream for answers…