Normally, your immune system fights off disease and protects your body from infection. However, when you have an autoimmune disease, your immune system mistakenly attacks healthy cells, tissues and ...

Scientists at the Immunology Frontier Research Center (IFReC), Osaka University, Japan, report a new molecular mechanism that could explain the cause of some autoimmune diseases. While the immune ...

During infections, the immune system needs to distinguish foreign antigens that are expressed by invading bacteria and viruses from self-antigens that are expressed by cells of the body. If not, the ...

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 ...

You might associate autoimmune conditions with symptoms like skin disease, chronic pain, and fatigue. But autoimmune disease hair loss can also happen. Your immune system is meant to keep you healthy ...

Immutep has completed the single ascending dose (SAD) portion of its IMP761 study IMP761 was well tolerated across all dose levels IMP761 data and Phase I results will be presented at the EULAR ...

September 21, 2010 (San Francisco, California) — Some patients with cryptogenic partial seizures refractory to traditional antiepileptic medications may have "autoimmune epilepsy" — epilepsy ...

A rare autoimmune condition with a tongue-twister of a name may impact people of Puerto Rican heritage through a newly discovered genetic pathway, a discovery that may ultimately guide genetic ...