Rejected petition Change the name of, rhuematoid arthritis. To rhuematoid disease.

Rhuematoid disease is a better discrimination, because it's not just arthritis. It's an autoimmune disease and should be addressed as one. Arthritis doesn't effect your lung's or kidneys, liver function, or brain. But rhuematoid disease does.

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Date submitted 8 April 2019
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