Symptoms and organ damage abated in young children and teenagers whose conditions had resisted other treatments.

In the rapidly moving field, questions remain regarding long-term safety, durability of remission, and the FDA’s approach to ...

FDA officials are advising drug developers to study the long-term effects of using CAR-T in autoimmune conditions out of ...

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 ...

Autoimmune diseases are on the rise. It’s not just a hunch—autoimmune diseases are rising sharply, and the numbers are too significant to ignore. These chronic conditions, where the immune system ...

RNA-based medicine is about to take a huge leap forward thanks to the discovery of extremely short RNA fragments with ...

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 ...

Autoimmune disorders occur when the body’s immune system cannot differentiate between cells that are its own and pathogens. Consequently, the body’s immune system attacks itself causing inflammation ...

In this post, I discuss new research on the complicated link between autoimmune diseases and eating disorders. Autoimmune diseases are chronic illnesses in which a host’s immune system fails to ...

People living with an autoimmune disease are nearly twice as likely to suffer from mood problems like depression, anxiety or bipolar disorder, a new large-scale study says. The risk of mood disorders ...

This article was reviewed by Knox Beasley, MD. You might associate autoimmune conditions with symptoms like skin disease, chronic pain, and fatigue. A less-discussed symptom of autoimmune diseases?