Reprinted with permisison of Amy Tenderich of DiabetesMine.com
If ever two things were once considered mutually exclusive, they were career and chronic illness. Add to that being a woman and the whole thing sounded like a joke. Well, we've come a long way, Baby.
According to Rosalind Joffe of CICoach.com and her business partner Joan Friedlander, there are millions of women out there succeeding in the workplace despite living with an autoimmune disease (AD). Specifically, as many as 50...
A study has linked vitamin D deficiency with an increased risk for cancer and autoimmune diseases like MS, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis... Read more »
A new clinical trial published in the online journal PloS ONE studied the effects of the anti-cancer drug Rituxan (rituximab) on chronic... Read more »
Did you know that as many as one third of people with diabetes will have a skin disorder caused or affected by diabetes at some time in... Read more »
I always enjoy reading my university alumni magazines to check out the amazing things my college classmates have done, invented, or won.... Read more »
We didn’t realize just how ill my mother was. As my mother walked into the emergency department, her shockingly low hemoglobin (Hb)... Read more »
Women who have developed the autoimmune disease myositis and who live in areas with high UV sun exposure are more likely to develop a form of the... Read more »
Scientists say they may have found a way to track the start of autoimmune disease such as multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, and... Read more »
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
Autoimmune hemolytic anemia; Anemia - idiopathic autoimmune hemolytic Treatment The first therapy tried is usually a steroid medication,... Read more »
Source: HealthCentral Encyclopedia
Autoimmune diseases are disorders in which the body's immune system reacts against some of its own tissue and produces antibodies to attack itself.To... Read more »
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
An autoimmune liver disease panel is a series of tests performed when autoimmune liver disease is suspected. An autoimmune liver disease means that... Read more »
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