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Chippenham’s MP has to self-isolate while undergoing treatment for a newly diagnosed autoimmune condition, her office has ...

An international team led by scientists at Stanford University has discovered a probable explanation for a decades-old biological mystery: why vastly more women than men suffer from autoimmune ...

There are many types of autoimmune conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis and type 1 diabetes, and they really are nothing new. What is new, however, is the number of people suffering from them.

With her, I took an antinuclear antibody (ANA) test and tested positive, which is one of the hallmark signs of autoimmune disease. I also learned that I had Lyme Disease — maybe from a tick bite ...

About one in ten people have an autoimmune disease, according to a population study of more than 2.2 million people. Autoimmune disease varies widely, and falls into subspecialties across the ...

Female mammals have a higher risk of developing autoimmune conditions such as lupus because extra copies of genes that are supposed to be permanently turned off get reactivated as they grow older ...

Autoimmune diseases are a complex group of conditions where the immune system, which is designed to protect our bodies from harmful invaders, starts attacking its own tissues. Some examples of ...