Science news articles about 'chronic autoimmune disease'

... like receptors, they can subsequently recruit T cells and that this can lead to a "vicious cycle" of chronic autoimmune disease in which the two types of cell activate each other. The findings might ...

Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) is a chronic autoimmune disease that strikes children between the ages of newborn to 16 years. All children with JRA have joint pain, stiffness, and swelling and ...

... , appears in the August edition of the journal Nature Genetics. Lupus is a chronic "autoimmune" disease in which the body's immune system attacks healthy tissues and organs. Symptoms range from skin ...

... get the best treatment for scleroderma, a chronic autoimmune disease in which hardening of the skin is a major element. ... way in which I wanted to intervene in my disease and live my life," she writes. ...

... of the European League Against Rheumatism in Copenhagen, Denmark. SLE is a complex, chronic autoimmune disease that causes inflammation and damage to body tissues. Inflammation of the kidney can ...

Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease that causes inflammation of the joints and surrounding tissues. More than 1.3 million adults in the U.S. suffer from RA with 75% of those ...

... , or even death. According to the report, lupus "stands apart" from other chronic autoimmune diseases because the majority of therapies currently used to effectively manage lupus have not been ...