Understanding what autoimmune diseases are, what triggers them and how they’re treated can be a powerful first step toward ...

Vitamin D is important to our overall health, and now scientists have made some notable discoveries about how deficiency early in life can trigger problems with the body's immune system. Researchers ...

Autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis arise when the immune system turns against the body itself. Yet for most of ...

Neurological autoimmune diseases involve an immune system attack on the central or peripheral nervous system (PNS). Multiple sclerosis is the most common and well-known of these conditions, but ...

Women are three times more likely to have thyroid nodules or thyroid cancer, compared to men. Women are also five to ten ...

What if the very internal system that is meant to protect us, our body, our organs, starts to turn against us? That's right! With the sharp rise in Autoimmune diseases in the world, launching attacks ...

A certain vitamin deficiency could trigger autoimmune conditions. Researchers at McGill University in Canada studied mice genetically engineered to not produce vitamin d naturally. They found the ...

Under normal conditions, cytokines aid in pathogen recognition and elimination while contributing to immune system ...

A new study reveals that people with autoimmune illness and especially women need to pay extra attention to their heart health. Women with certain autoimmune diseases were more than twice as likely to ...

Private rheumatologist Dr Anandita Santosa in Singapore notes how current AI in healthcare priorities practically leave ...

You might associate autoimmune conditions with symptoms like skin disease, chronic pain, and fatigue. A less-discussed symptom of autoimmune diseases? Hair loss. Your immune system is meant to keep ...

Autoimmune neurological diseases are conditions where the immune system attacks nerve cells. Damage to neuronal cells can lead to a variety of neurologic and psychiatric symptoms. Autoimmune diseases ...