A Stanford Medicine-led study sheds light on women's higher autoimmune disease risk, attributing it to a molecule from the X chromosome. Continue reading to learn more.
Experts found that people who experienced childhood trauma are at risk of developing multiple sclerosis. Read more to know the association between negative childhood events and autoimmune diseases.
Researchers from the Australian National University found a natural protein--Neuritin-- as an effective means of hampering the production of allergy-inducing rogue plasma cells in the body.
Autoimmune diseases may now be easier to treat as UK scientists have discovered a way to trick the immune system and prevent it from attacking their healthy cells. The researchers are hoping that with their findings, conditions such as multiple sclerosis would become better understood and more treatable.
Part of the answer may lie in the skin of women! One of the great mysteries of medicine and also one that affects the lives of millions of people is why the immune systems of women gang up on them far more than men's do which causes nine times more women to develop autoimmune diseases such as lupus.