by Delthia Ricks , Medical Xpress DNA, which has a double-helix structure, can have many genetic mutations and variations. Credit: NIH A rare autoimmune condition with a tongue-twister of a name may impact people of Puerto Rican heritage through a newly discovered genetic pathway, a discovery that may ultimately guide genetic counseling and treatment, scientists...
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Researchers find increased risk of autoimmune disease in stone bench-top industry, call for better screening
September 16, 2024 by Monash University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainIn what could be a preview of an even greater disease burden for those workers in the artificial stone benchtop industry, Monash researchers have conducted a large study finding that those workers exposed to silica dust show a higher incidence of blood markers that are the...
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Autoimmune disease researchers find immune cells escape therapy due to ‘exhausted’ state
September 5, 2024 by Frederike Buhse, Exzellenzcluster Präzisionsmedizin für chronische Entzündungserkrankungen Graphical abstract. Credit: Immunity (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2024.08.005In autoimmune diseases, the immune system mistakenly attacks the body’s own structures. A research team from Kiel, Lübeck and Berlin has now succeeded in analyzing certain pathogenic immune cells more precisely using a method they developed. They discovered...
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Form of B12 Deficiency Affecting the Central Nervous System May Be New Autoimmune Disease
Medscape Medical News Lucy Hicks July 01, 2024 Researchers have identified a form of B12 deficiency caused by autoantibodies that specifically affects the central nervous system. Discovered while studying a puzzling case of one patient with inexplicable neurological systems, the same autoantibody was detected in a small percentage of healthy individuals and was nearly four...
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Covid-19 increases risk of developing autoimmune disease, but vaccination helps, large study shows
By Isabella Cueto Dozens of commuters, wearing face masks, swarm toward a descending escalator at a train station in Tokyo, Japan — politics coverage from STATPeople wearing face masks pass through a train station in Tokyo, Japan.CARL COURT/GETTY IMAGESHaving Covid-19 increases a person’s risk of developing an autoimmune disease in the year after infection, a...
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CAR T-cell therapy appears to be feasible, safe for autoimmune diseases
by Elana Gotkine CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy seems feasible, safe, and efficacious for patients with different autoimmune diseases, according to a study published in the Feb. 22 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Fabian Müller, M.D., from the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany, and colleagues examined patients with severe systemic...
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Remission of Cushing’s disease associated with higher risk of developing autoimmune disease
by American College of Physicians Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainA study of more than 250 persons undergoing surgical therapy for Cushing’s disease (CD) or nonfunctioning pituitary adenomas (NFPAs) found that patients who achieved remission of CD were more likely than those with surgically treated NFPAs to develop new-onset autoimmune disease within three years after remission. The study...
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Preventing Autoimmune Diseases: New Findings on Vitamin D, Omega-3 Supplements
Neil Osterweil Two years after the end of a randomized trial that showed a benefit of daily vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acid (n-3 FA) supplementation for reducing risk for autoimmune diseases, the salubrious effects of daily vitamin D appear to have waned after the supplement was discontinued, while the protection from n-3 lived on...
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Study finds clear link between autoimmune disease and perinatal depression
by Karolinska Institutet Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainWomen with autoimmune disease are more likely to suffer from depression during pregnancy and after childbirth; conversely, women with a history of perinatal depression are at higher risk of developing autoimmune disease, a new study from Karolinska Institutet published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry reports. In autoimmune disease, the immune...
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Many autoimmune disease patients struggle with diagnosis, costs, inattentive care
by Andy Miller, KFF Health News Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain After years of debilitating bouts of fatigue, Beth VanOrden finally thought she had an answer to her problems in 2016 when she was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s disease, an autoimmune disorder. For her and millions of other Americans, that’s the most common cause of hypothyroidism, a...