PASCAGOULA, Miss. (WLOX) - Several people gathered at the Pascagoula Beach Park on Sunday to raise awareness on lupus and scleroderma, two rare autoimmune diseases. For years now, Lakesha Bivins has ...

Richard D. Sontheimer, MD, Professor of Dermatology has specialized expertise in the diagnosis and treatment of skin changes that occur in autoimmune rheumatic (arthritic) diseases like lupus, ...

Ask the Experts - Sjögren's Syndrome and Tongue Enlargement In Sjögren's syndrome, is there any enlargement of the lingual papillae? A 65-year-old woman has osteoporosis, severe xerostomy from ...

In autoimmune skin diseases, your body’s immune system mistakenly attacks your own healthy cells. The overzealous immune response may show up as rashes, plaques, blisters, scaly patches or skin ...

Patients with both systemic sclerosis (SSc) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are more likely to be female, Black, and diagnosed with limited cutaneous SSc. Researchers used the 2019 SLE ...

Scientists have found a new piece in the puzzle that explains why B cells self-react in autoimmune disease—and, with it, a potential new treatment strategy. In an article published Sept. 29 in the ...

Lupus affects different people in different ways. Many people with lupus have problems with the heart, lungs, and blood. How does lupus affect the heart, lungs, and blood? Your heart, blood vessels, ...

– 7 of 8 myositis patients achieved clinically meaningful TIS responses after discontinuation of all immunomodulators, while off or actively tapering steroids; responses were sustained throughout the ...

There are now more than 100 autoimmune diseases, in which the immune system that would normally help a person fight off disease instead mistakenly attacks healthy tissue and does damage to the body.