What are called autoimmune diseases can affect just about every part of the body — and tens of millions of people. While most ...
Another common feature: Patients with a number of autoimmune diseases, especially women, often suffer heart attacks and ...
Doctor after doctor misdiagnosed or shrugged off Ruth Wilson's rashes, swelling, fevers, and severe pain for 6 years. She ...
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That last-ditch test found the Massachusetts woman’s kidneys were failing. The culprit? Her immune system had been attacking her own body all that time and nobody caught it. “I just wish there was a ...
It's one of medicine's biggest mysteries — why sometimes our immune system attacks our own bodies Doctor after doctor misdiagnosed or shrugged off Ruth Wilson’s rashes, swelling, fevers and severe ...