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A report in the January issue of Nature magazine announces that one more step in understanding what may cause the body to attack itself in its war against autoimmune disease has been discovered by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Whitehead Institute, says the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA), a national nonprofit patient advocacy organization.
A report in the March 22 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine reveals that a pinpointed region of chromosome 17, a gene named NALP1, could be a new target of treatment for autoimmune diseases.
The recent report out of the Annals of Internal Medicine profiling President John F. Kennedy鈥檚 autoimmune disease surprised many Americans due to his appearance throughout his presidency of health and vitality. However, those who study autoimmune diseases know that the outward manifestation of many autoimmune diseases can often lead the public to believe that the person suffering is perfectly healthy. It is this outward appearance of health that is one of the major barriers for patients who suffer from autoimmune diseases to obtain a proper diagnosis.
A new report by the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA) examining the economic impact of autoimmune disease (AD) on Americans, their families and the United States was released today at a congressional briefing as part of AARDA鈥檚 2011 National Autoimmune Diseases Awareness Month activities.
A recent study conducted by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), an agency of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), shows that 32 million people in the United States have autoantibodies, the most common of which are antinuclear antibodies (ANA). According to the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA), while the study is significant in that it is the first to investigate the presence of autoantibodies in the U.S. population, the results are far from unexpected. 鈥�"The study does not surprise us at AARDA as we have known that the number of autoimmune diseases have been increasing significantly within the past decade.聽 What we don't know is why,鈥� says AARDA鈥檚 President and Executive Director Virginia T. Ladd.
Disease causes AIDS-like symptoms.
Study shows that autoimmune disease patients fail to take medications as prescribed.
A new study of more than 2,700 mothers of children with autism shows that about one in 10 mothers have antibodies in their bloodstream that react with proteins in the brain of their babies.
A new, large-scale study of more than 2,700 mothers of children with autism shows that about one in 10 mothers have antibodies in their bloodstream that react with proteins in the brain of their babies.
Data Culled from National Lupus Patient Registries in Michigan and Georgia AARDA Calls for Similar National Autoimmune Disease Registries.
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