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What is a rheumatic disease?

More than 200 conditions are classified as rheumatic diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and Sjögren’s disease. They tend to affect the joints and connective tissues, causing pain and swelling and impacting quality of life. Here’s what a doctor wants you to know about the different types, symptoms and risk factors—and how Johnson & Johnson is innovating new treatments.

What’s the difference between a heart attack and cardiac arrest?

Both are life-threatening heart-health emergencies, but they are two distinct conditions with different causes and treatment. Here’s what a cardiologist wants you to know.

What’s the difference between IBS and IBD?

These GI conditions sound similar, and they also share some symptoms. But IBS and IBD are distinct disorders—especially when it comes to treatment and the risk of complications.

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5 things we now know about bladder cancer

Paradigm-shifting new therapies are helping people with the disease lead longer, more comfortable lives. Learn how Johnson & Johnson is helping to change the treatment landscape.

Building climate-resilient health clinics

When Mother Nature strikes—think triple-digit heatwaves, wildfires, hurricanes—vulnerable populations are at risk of missing out on much-needed healthcare. For Earth Day, learn how Johnson & Johnson is helping community clinics protect patients.

By the numbers: Who gets lung cancer?

Each year, more people die of lung cancer than colon, breast and prostate cancers combined. Learn how Johnson & Johnson is dedicated to improving outcomes by integrating the company’s MedTech and Innovative Medicine expertise.

Is this the end of one-size-fits-all treatments for depression?

For World Mental Health Day, learn how Johnson & Johnson is working to bring personalized psychiatry to the 7 in 10 people with depression whose treatments aren’t getting the job done.

What it’s like when your baby has a rare blood disorder

A condition called fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (FNAIT) can be deadly in newborns. That’s why Johnson & Johnson is passionate about developing a treatment for the disorder.

More from Johnson & Johnson

This scientist couldn’t save his father from lung cancer—but the targeted treatments Robert Zhao, Ph.D., has since developed have helped countless others

Learn more about Zhao, his partnership with Johnson & Johnson and antibody-drug conjugates—a new type of cancer therapy that targets and kills cancer cells without harming healthy cells.

After their husbands were diagnosed with multiple myeloma, these 3 care partners became health equity activists

Kimberly Alexander, Michelle Ware-Ivy and Marsha Calloway-Campbell learned firsthand that Black individuals develop multiple myeloma at higher rates. That’s why they joined Johnson & Johnson’s That’s My Word® health equity campaign, which builds awareness about the disparities surrounding this rare blood cancer.

How Johnson & Johnson is working to get medications to people around the world who need them most

In the just-released 2024 Access to Medicine Index, the company ranks among the top 5 improving access to medicines.