00:00A treatment best known for fighting cancer just put severe rheumatoid arthritis into remission for the first time.
00:06Doctors at Charité, a major hospital in Berlin,
00:09treated six patients with severe, treatment-resistant rheumatoid arthritis using CAR T-cell therapy,
00:15a method that reprograms a patient's own immune cells in the lab to hunt down disease-driving cells.
00:21In the trial, published in Nature Medicine, every single patient saw their disease activity drop substantially.
00:28By the end of the follow-up period, which lasted up to a year,
00:32three of the six patients no longer needed any arthritis medication at all.
00:36Researchers believe the therapy works by clearing out harmful immune cells
00:40and effectively rebooting part of the immune system.
00:43It's a remarkable result for patients whose disease hadn't responded to any existing treatment,
00:48though scientists caution that much larger trials are still needed
00:52before this becomes a real option for people living with the disease.
00:55Disclosure. This video contains stock footage and content created or enhanced using AI-assisted tools.
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