Taiwanese study puts numbers to common but poorly studied phenomenon ...

Frequent dry eyes may signal more than simple irritation and could be an early warning sign of an autoimmune disease. This ...

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 ...

Vitamin D is important to our overall health, and now scientists have made some notable discoveries about how deficiency early in life can trigger problems with the body's immune system. Researchers ...

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified two lipids that work together with a quintessential protein known ...

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 ...

If autoimmune disease runs in your family, you may have been told some version of this: It’s in your genes. But science is revealing a deeper layer of complexity; genetic predisposition influences ...

Dry eye disease affects many people across different autoimmune diseases, ranging in prevalence from about 23% to 81%, and appears about 3 years before diagnosis, a study finds.

Neurological autoimmune diseases involve an immune system attack on the central or peripheral nervous system (PNS). Multiple sclerosis is the most common and well-known of these conditions, but ...

From birth-month signatures to global climate gradients, emerging evidence indicates that seasonal light, temperature, and ...

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. What are called autoimmune diseases can ...

Autoimmune neurological diseases are conditions where the immune system attacks nerve cells. Damage to neuronal cells can lead to a variety of neurologic and psychiatric symptoms. Autoimmune diseases ...