Editorial Open Access
Volume 1 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.46439/rheumatology.1.001
Overview of rheumatoid arthritis: Past lessons and future paths
Shih-Chao Lin1,*
- 1National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases, George Mason University, Manassas, VA. 20110, USA
Corresponding Author
Shih-Chao Lin, Slin20@gmu.edu
Received Date: May 23, 2020
Accepted Date: May 26, 2020
Lin S-C. Overview of rheumatoid arthritis: Past lessons and future paths. Curr Rheumatol Res 2020. 1(1): 1-2.
Copyright: © 2020 Lin S-C. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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