When the heart's muscle is weakened or injured due to a heart attack, it can make it hard for the heart to pump enough blood ...

A relatively new class of autoimmune diseases that affect the brain is making psychiatrists rethink some diagnoses.

WellTheory, a virtual care platform for autoimmune patients, is launching a program for postpartum women. The Postpartum Program was driven by customer demand, executives said, and is designed to ...

Initial results as promising as those in lupus and other non-cancer diseases driven by B c ...

Dr. Veena Joy shares her path to industry, advances in autoimmune diagnostics, CAR-T potential, health economics, and equity in women's health.

Dr. Lacy Anderson says Sjogren’s syndrome is frequently linked to other autoimmune diseases and may also affect the digestive ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have long known that women are more likely to develop autoimmune disorders than men, though they’ve struggled to fully understand why. Now a new study in mice suggests a key part of the ...

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 ...

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 ...