Sjogren's Syndrome: What Can You Do About Hives And Other Dry Skin Symptoms?
Sjogren syndrome is an autoimmune condition that affects women almost nine times more commonly than it does men. There are some classic symptoms of Sjogren syndrome which characterize the conditions. ...
Life Expectancy (Mortality) For Friedreich's Ataxia
Overview Friedreich's ataxia is a neurological condition that involves the cerebellum of the brain, the spinal cord, and the peripheral nerves that carry electrical signals from the brain and spinal...
Vaculitis: What It Is, What to Do About It
Vasculitis is a collection of diseases involving inflammation of the blood vessels. It's not just a problem of golfers or hikers or people who take long walks on hot days...
Dermatomyositis Is Usually Survivable
Dermatomyositis is an inflammatory condition of the skin and muscles. Regions of inflammation can calcify, especially when the disease strikes children and adolescents, and the condition can spread from skin...
Surviving Polymyositis
Polymyositis is an inflammatory disease that attacks muscles. IIn polymyositis, T-cells that ordinarily would release chemicals and B-cells that would ordinarily release antigens to destroy a germ instead release the same...
What Is The Prognosis For Mixed Connective Tissue Disease?
Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) is a rare connective tissue disease, or rather a mish-mash of other connective tissue diseases. Patients typically present with symptoms of lupus, arthritis, polymyositis, and scleroderma. ...
Lupus: Everything You Need To Know
Lupus is an autoimmune disease that is chronic in nature. A disease being autoimmune basically means that the immune system of the body fails to properly distinguish between foreign agents...
Newly Diagnosed With Hashimoto's Disease?
Hashimoto’s disease, also called Hashimoto’s thyroiditis is an autoimmune disease. What this means is that the body’s immune system treats one of its own organs as a foreign agent and...
Graves' Disease: Symptoms, Diagnosis And Treatment
Graves’ disease is a disorder affecting multiple organs of the body, caused by hyperactivity of the thyroid gland. The thyroid gland is a small soft gland located at the base...
Autoimmune Hepatitis: What It Is, Why It Happens, What to Do About It
Autoimmune hepatitis (previously known as autoimmune liver disease and autoimmune chronic active hepatitis) is condition that occurs when the immune system mistakenly attacks the liver. Usually there is some kind...