Steve O’Keeffe

Sep 20, 2023 | clinicalleader.com | Steve O’Keeffe |Adam Bloomfield |Kerry Leyden |Caroline Potts

Is Osteoarthritis Cure — ARPA-H NITRO — Rocket Fuel Or TNT? The U.S. federal government just unveiled a moonshot to fix osteoarthritis. Rumored to be funded at $1 billion and launched out of the new Advanced Research Project Agency for Health (ARPA-H), the Novel Innovations for Tissue Regeneration in Osteoarthritis, or NITRO program, plans to cure OA in five years. But can it be done?

Aug 21, 2023 | clinicalleader.com | Steve O’Keeffe

By Steve O’Keeffe, founder, Angry@Arthritis While you don’t need to be a fossil to suffer from arthritis, paleontologists tell us it hobbled our old buddy T-Rex. Anthropologists tell us the first recorded human osteoarthritis (OA) hobbler dates back to 4500 BC. But, today, we’re taking a new look at this ancient affliction. The U.S. federal government just unveiled a moonshot to fix OA.