Your immune system was supposed to protect you from threats, but sometimes it gets confused about what counts as an enemy and starts attacking your own healthy tissues. This internal betrayal happens ...

Think of your immune system like a hardworking security team: Day and night, with zero breaks, it’s scanning for potentially dangerous intruders. And while you mindlessly scroll your social feeds and ...

Autoimmune disorders in women are becoming fairly common due to a number of factors. But to understand how this disease impacts women, here is what autoimmune disease means. It happens when the body's ...

Autoimmune arthritis is a category of long-term conditions in which the immune system, which helps to defend us against infection, mistakenly assaults healthy tissue in joints. This is a misguided ...

Autoimmune neuromuscular diseases may sound complex, but understanding them is the first step to getting the right care and support. Conditions such as Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS), ...

Nightmares and hallucinations — or “daymares” — may be early warning signs for the onset of an autoimmune disease or a flare-up, new research shows. “For many years, I have discussed nightmares with ...

Prompt recognition of autoimmune disease symptoms can help patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia receive proper rheumatologic care. Immune dysregulation associated with chronic lymphocytic ...

Autoimmune pericarditis is pericarditis that develops in people who have underlying autoimmune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis and SLE. This article explains what autoimmune pericarditis is and ...

Blood samples drawn from patients with long COVID who are still suffering from fatigue and shortness of breath after a year show signs of autoimmune disease in those patients, according to a study ...

Nightmares are unpleasant, but perfectly normal – for most. However, my colleagues and I have recently discovered that they can also presage autoimmune diseases, such as lupus. Our study, published in ...

Nightmares are unpleasant but perfectly normal – for most. However, my colleagues and I have recently discovered that they can also presage autoimmune diseases, such as lupus. Our study, published in ...