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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Consider two seemingly unrelated medical puzzles. First: Every day, our bodies produce hundreds of billions of new cells, ...

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 ...

Medical textbooks may need a rewrite, after a common virus has been found to be the cause of a second autoimmune disease. The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), once thought to just cause a childhood illness ...