print email comment close Osteoarthritis URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/osteoarthritis.html Description: Information about osteoarthritis, "one of the oldest and most common types of arthritis ... characterized by the breakdown of the joint's cartilage." Find news, diagnoses, treatments, alternative treatments, specific conditions, disease management, representative research articles, and more. From the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Publisher: U.S. National Library of Medicine Library of Congress Subject Headings: Arthritis Osteoarthritis LII Database Information: Record 1928 created by Karen Schneider on 11/01/2004 Last modification on 11/12/2004 Published: 11/01/2004   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/1928