In the rapidly moving field, questions remain regarding long-term safety, durability of remission, and the FDA’s approach to ...

While interested in CAR-T therapies’ potential to achieve durable, drug-free remission in serious autoimmune conditions, the FDA is equally wary of their “unpredictable long-term toxicity,” according ...

An illustration of damaged nerve cells caused by multiple sclerosis, one of the autoimmune diseases that affect as many 800 million people around the world.Photograph: Juan Gaertner/Science Photo ...

Scientists from Belgian biotech company etherna, who are working on inverse RNA vaccines for multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases. For decades, the only option available to patients ...

Are autoimmune diseases fatal? Normally, your immune system fights off disease and protects your body from infection. However, when you have an autoimmune disease, your immune system ...

According to the results of the early study, published simultaneously in the New England Journal of Medicine, 92% of patients ...

Medically reviewed by Marisa Garshick, MD Scientists now think chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) is an autoimmune disease, ...

ANSWER: Encephalitis means inflammation of the brain, which is a rare condition. It can be caused by infections (especially viruses) or autoimmune reactions, including antibody-mediated encephalitis.

Neurological autoimmune diseases involve an immune system attack on the central or peripheral nervous system (PNS). Multiple sclerosis is the most common and well-known of these conditions, but ...

Researchers recently tried an experiment: Gather people who had the same kind of lung cancer and put them on the same type of treatments to fire up their immune systems. The only difference was that ...