A discovery about the mechanisms that enable the immune system to sustain long-term protection could revolutionize treatment for chronic disease and cancer. Prolonged illnesses like cancer and chronic ...

The discovery could make treatments more effective and improve clinical outcomes. Battling a chronic disease is like running a marathon where T cells, the immune system’s frontline defenders, are the ...

A few disorders can greatly impact your daily life, causing discomfort and issues with movements. One such is myasthenia gravis (MG), an autoimmune neuromuscular disorder that causes weakness in the ...

Medically reviewed by Marisa Garshick, MD Scientists now think chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) is an autoimmune disease, ...

Are autoimmune diseases fatal? Normally, your immune system fights off disease and protects your body from infection. However, when you have an autoimmune disease, your immune system ...

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Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have uncovered how chronic inflammation disrupts the immune ...

Researchers at UC San Francisco have uncovered a new clue to how Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) could contribute to multiple sclerosis (MS), a chronic autoimmune disease that affects nearly one million ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.