Understanding what autoimmune diseases are, what triggers them and how they’re treated can be a powerful first step toward ...

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 ...

The first patient enrolled in a planned international clinical trial has been treated at HonorHealth Research Institute with a new type of immune therapy for those with a rare muscle-weakness disease ...

Myasthenia gravis, or MG, is "a chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disorder that causes muscle weakness and fatigue," says Hesterlee. It occurs "when a person’s immune system is essentially attacking ...

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 ...

Tennis great Monica Seles has revealed she was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune disease, three years ago. Ahead of the US Open, which kicks off next week, the 51-year-old opened up ...

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy has been an exciting area of development for autoimmune disease treatment. Previous reports had not mentioned any particular constellation of adverse ...

It can be a real pain in the neck. Rheumatoid arthritis, or RA, is an autoimmune disease in which the body mistakenly attacks ...

Blood tests can help with the diagnosis of autoimmune hepatitis. These include tests for increased liver enzymes or antibody levels. However, other tests are necessary to confirm the diagnosis.