Up to 50 million Americans have an autoimmune disease – a condition in which your immune system attacks healthy cells – and as many as 80% of those people are women. A new study led by researchers at ...

People diagnosed with autoimmune diseases experience mood and anxiety disorders at nearly double the rate of the general ...

The prevalence of type 2 diabetes in patients with autoimmune liver disease was 27.6%. Type 2 diabetes seems to reduce the risk of primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), and primary biliary cholangitis ...

Autoimmune diseases vary widely, but all involve the immune system attacking healthy tissue. Examples include psoriatic disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and celiac disease. Autoimmune diseases can ...

A Japanese research group has discovered that a newly-identified autoimmune endocrine disease that leads to hypopituitarism is caused by thymomas (a type of tumor originating from the thymic gland).

Autoimmune diseases cannot currently be cured, only treated, and this is also true for neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder, which affects the central nervous system. A study of how the treatment ...

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.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The risk for type 1 diabetes is more than twice as high for teens and young adults with autoimmune disease.

Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have found evidence that type-1 narcolepsy, a condition known for its "sleep attacks," is caused by the body's own immune system. The work is ...