A tired body gets blamed on stress. A bloated stomach gets dismissed as something eaten in a rush. Joint stiffness is brushed off as age or long work hours. But sometimes, these scattered signals are ...

Huntington disease is a rare, inherited brain disorder that progressively destroys nerve cells, leading to worsening movement ...

"My year of unraveling" is how a despairing Christy Morrill described nightmarish months when his immune system hijacked his brain. What's called autoimmune encephalitis attacks the organ that makes ...

NEW YORK, June 30 (UPI) --For the millions of Americans battling autoimmune disorders, new hope may be on the horizon in the form of reverse or inverse vaccines -- injections that target a specific ...

Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and autoimmune conditions can overlap, and each may raise the risk of the other. Up to 30% of people with MDS also have an autoimmune disorder. Autoimmune conditions ...

Endometriosis is not officially considered an autoimmune disease. However, experts believe it may develop because of immune system dysregulation (when the immune system isn’t functioning as it should) ...

Researchers at the University of Kansas have discovered a human gene, the protein PARP14, plays a role in regulating interferon, part of the body's innate immune system. Their study, appearing in the ...

A team of leading clinical research scientists from the Departments of Psychiatry and Dermatology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has found that the serum of patients with major ...