Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The common consensus for some time has been that the prevalence of autoimmunity and autoimmune diseases has been ...

Up to 50 million Americans have an autoimmune disease – a condition in which your immune system attacks healthy cells – and as many as 80% of those people are women. A new study led by researchers at ...

"Type 1 diabetes is a T cell-mediated autoimmune disease arising from the destruction of pancreatic insulin-producing β cells found within the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas," write Drs. Matthew ...

Autoimmune diseases cannot currently be cured, only treated, and this is also true for neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder, which affects the central nervous system. A study of how the treatment ...

Studies have reported cases of people developing autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and lupus after undergoing gastric bypass surgery. But research is mixed as to whether there’s a link.

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...