Autoimmune disease hair loss can happen with alopecia areata, lupus, thyroid diseases, rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease, and scalp psoriasis. Each disease has different effects, ...

A “living drug” was developed as a cancer treatment. Now it is showing promise for conditions, such as lupus and multiple sclerosis, that have long been considered incurable.

Having Covid-19 increases a person’s risk of developing an autoimmune disease in the year after infection, a large study out of South Korea and Japan reports, but vaccination helps decrease that risk.

Excoriation disorder, also known as dermatillomania, is a skin-picking condition. People with excoriation disorder will pick, scrape, rub, scratch, or pull at their skin, sometimes to the point where ...

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There are now more than 100 autoimmune diseases, in which the immune system that would normally help a person fight off disease instead mistakenly attacks healthy tissue and does damage to the body.

When the first adalimumab (Humira) biosimilar launched at the end of January, it was just the beginnings of a wave of coming biosimilars for anti-inflammatory biologics. Anti-inflammatory biologics ...

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 ...

Postmenopausal women who used estrogen hormone therapy (HT) had a modestly higher risk of developing a new autoimmune disease over the next 5-10 years than women who did not use HT, according to ...

Patients with type 2 diabetes who received sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors demonstrated a nearly 50% lower risk for systemic autoimmune rheumatic disease vs. those who received dipeptidyl ...

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 ...