There’s an important distinction to be made between acute inflammation and chronic inflammation. Inflammation is your body’s ...

Autoimmune diseases are conditions in which your immune system mistakenly damages healthy cells in your body. Types include rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease, and some thyroid conditions ...

Here's how to know the signs and how to treat it. The Latest Most people with an autoimmune disease can live a full, normal life. But some autoimmune diseases can affect your life expectancy ...

“It is an important and significant finding,” says Georg Schett, an immunologist at University Hospital Erlangen in Germany, ...

Autoimmune progesterone dermatitis (APD ... Herranz, & Tercedor, 1998). Signs and symptoms of APD can present as urticaria, angioedema, erythema multiforme, and eczematous lesions, thought ...

There are at least 70 documented autoimmune diseases [36] and the prevalence of autoimmune disease is rapidly rising worldwide, for reasons not completely understood. [37] Although the disorders ...

Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE ... As a consequence, the pathogenesis, pathology and clinical signs vary significantly between experimental protocols. As I describe in this ...

An autoimmune disease occurs when your body's natural defense mechanism mistakenly attacks normal cells. There are many different autoimmune diseases, but many have overlapping symptoms like ...