It seems like everyone I talk to has a diagnosis of some new autoimmune condition. What is going on? Your observation is accurate. Autoimmune diseases are rising worldwide, and it’s not purely ...

Autoimmune diseases occur when the body’s immune system senses a threat and attacks its own healthy cells, tissues, or organs ...

A revolutionary treatment for autoimmune diseases could be on the horizon. Twenty-four million to 50 million Americans have an autoimmune disease, in which the body’s immune system mistakenly ...

WASHINGTON — Preexisting autoimmune diseases do not increase mortality risk in patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors for cancer, according to data presented at ACR Convergence 2024.

According to the US CDC, 34 million Americans have Type 2 Diabetes, while 1.6 million are estimated to have (autoimmune-based) Type 1 Diabetes. Meanwhile, a quieter, more important breakthrough ...

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy has been an exciting area of development for autoimmune disease treatment. Previous reports had not mentioned any particular constellation of adverse ...

But the disease is also now linked to a higher-than-usual risk of developing certain autoimmune disorders, according to recent research. And while this news may make it feel like the whole world ...

A substantial proportion of patients with autoimmune diseases experienced a new side effect called local immune effector cell–associated toxicity syndromes (LICATS) after receiving chimeric ...

Bacteria in the gut have been implicated in autoimmune diseases, like lupus, that don’t primarily affect the gastrointestinal system. But how those bacteria affect the human immune system remains ...

But there’s one field that has seen an even more significant amount of activity: autoimmune diseases. Companies that are developing new medicines for autoimmune conditions, as well as other ...

The findings, published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, also reveal a new target for a universal treatment for human autoimmune disease. The research was led by Tomokazu Sumida, an ...

CAR-T cell therapy for people with autoimmune diseases such as lupus is in its early stages. While the therapy presents a powerful new strategy for treatment, a recent review highlights potential ...