Autoimmune diseases Articles

Science has not found a cure for Crohn's Disease, an inflammatory bowel disease, but one can manage its symptoms by adopting a suitable diet plan, in addition to medical and surgical treatments.

Multiple sclerosis, more commonly termed MS, is a fickle condition that tends to remit and relapse over time. For this reason, it is hard to evaluate the effectiveness of diet in controlling it. But solid new evidence suggests sodium restriction may help.

Modern antiretroviral drugs, although highly successful, cannot fully eliminate HIV from the body. New approaches based on gene therapy and immune system upgrade are now being studied.

Till date no cure has been found for Multiple Sclerosis. A recent study by Paolo Zamboni suggests that endovascular angioplasty can alleviate the symptoms of the disease. Read on to find out more about the study.

Fighting HIV with genetically modified immune cells? That might sound like something about of a futuristic film, but it has actually become reality on a small scale. Read on to find out more about this revolutionary new HIV treatment.

The carpal tunnel is the passageway in the wrist, made up of the arching carpal bones and the ligament connecting the pillars of the arch (the transverse carpal ligament).

A drug called Benlysta from the stable of Human Genome Sciences Inc, a small biotech company has been approved by the U.S. as a new treatment for lupus in almost 50 years.

Women who had type 1, insulin-dependent diabetes were once advised not even to try to have babies.

Discoid lupus erythematosus is a disease affecting the skin especially that of face with features of wasting and scarring of skin and photosensitivity. It is also called as lupus erythematosus chronicus discoides.

A study done in Denmark on about 68,120 women who became pregnant between 1996 and 2002 has come to the conclusion that presence of Rheumatoid Arthritis makes it difficult for the women to conceive.