Thanks to money from the Foundation in Nijmegen RUN figured out how diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis are formed. Knowledge about its causes is indeed needed to make better, more targeted forms of treatment for these diseases to be found. Another example is research on the way to more accurately measure how severe a person suffering from a rheumatic disease and how the symptoms in the change over time. Such measurements are needed in order to interpret whether or not the patient has something new (and existing) forms of treatment. And to this effect to be set against the cost of treatment.

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