Asal Shirazi, Founder of ASA Foundation, shares insights into what drives inflammatory responses, including the role of ...

What's an Autoimmune Disease? Autoimmune diseases result when your immune system is overactive, causing it to attack and damage your body's own tissues. Normally, your immune system creates proteins ...

Dr. Karl Landsteiner won the Nobel prize in 1930 for developing the ABO blood group system. The ABO system is the best known method of classifying blood types. It’s important to know your blood type ...

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

If your doctor has recommended biologics to treat your autoimmune disease, you might find yourself wondering: How do biologics work? There are many different treatments 1 for autoimmune diseases, and ...

Autoimmune disease is a condition in which the body attacks itself, health experts told Fox News. Recently, the autoimmune disease scleroderma has been in the headlines after the death of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Your first symptoms of an autoimmune disease may be general, such as fatigue, low-grade fever, and difficulty concentrating, making autoimmune diseases difficult to diagnose at first. You also may ...