Rare diseases reveal that our sense of identity rests on fragile biological infrastructure, much of it operating outside ...

Like an estimated 20 million Americans, I have an incurable post-acute infection syndrome that goes by the name of long Covid ...

In recent decades, there has been increasing focus on individual responsibility for health. The emphasis for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) has long been on screening, early diagnosis, and timely ...

Of all the ways our immune system can run amok and damage the body instead of protecting it, autoimmune encephalitis is one ...

What are called autoimmune diseases can affect just about every part of the body — and tens of millions of people. While most ...

It's one of medicine's biggest mysteries — why sometimes our immune system attacks our own bodies. Autoimmune diseases affect as many as 50 million Americans and millions more worldwide.

Scientists are trying a revolutionary new approach to treat rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, lupus and other ...

It may sound surprising but kids can get diseases like lupus and arthritis, too, when their immune system mistakenly attacks ...

A new AI model called popEVE can predict how likely each variant in a patient’s genome is to cause disease. The team is ...

Unequal global access to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) therapies creates profound health inequities. The increasing prevalence of IBD in Western countries, driven by high incidence rates and low ...