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 ...

Consider two seemingly unrelated medical puzzles. First: Every day, our bodies produce hundreds of billions of new cells, ...

When patients start getting treated for conditions like psoriatic arthritis, or connective tissue diseases like lupus and ...

People who suffer from the autoimmune disease myasthenia gravis experience muscle weakness that can affect any of the muscles we use to blink, smile or even move our body around. Researchers have ...

Our immune system has a dark side: It’s supposed to fight off invaders to keep us healthy. But sometimes it turns traitor and attacks our own cells and tissues. New research is raising the prospect of ...

Konig and Green are among the champions of this effort which The AP calls "a revolutionary new approach to treat rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, lupus, and other devastating autoimmune ...

A peek inside some leading research labs shows how scientists-turned-detectives are painstakingly decoding what causes autoimmune diseases and how to stop the immune system from attacking you instead ...

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

Scientists at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research have discovered how a viral infection causes autoimmune disease, disproving a long-standing theory and opening a promising new approach to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kelly McKenna, CEO of End Chronic Disease, joins Fox 5 to help us better understand how to recognize symptoms and what steps ...

It sounds like alchemy: doctors treating rheumatoid arthritis with the beloved base metal gold. Popularized in the 1920s by French physician Jacques Forestier, injecting gold compounds became a ...