InFocus
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Congressional briefing offers facts about Research Plan
Posted June 26, 2003
View From the Top:
Looking Back to FY 2002 and Sharing a Glimpse of AARDA's Future
Posted June 26, 2003
Autoimmunity And Smallpox Vaccine - A Risk?
Posted June 26, 2003
Thyroid problems? New TSH Range Suggested By Endocrinology Association
Posted June 26, 2003
AARDA awards autoimmune research grants
Posted May 10, 2002
Pfizer offers prescription coverage for seniors
Posted May 10, 2002
Damping the flames: inflammation control mechanism determined by NIH researchers
Posted May 10, 2002
Immune system dysfunction may play key role in chronic fatigue syndrome
Posted May 9, 2002
Multiple sclerosis taking increasing toll on women
Posted May 9, 2002
Tips for getting a proper diagnosis of an autoimmune disease
Posted May 9, 2002
Mutations and infection; autoimmune trigger?
Posted July 23, 2001
From Georgia to Maine, the Appalachian hike continues
Posted July 23, 2001
Women helping women...opportunities in medical research
The Autoimmune Diseases
Noel R. Rose, M.D., Ph.D., provides a discussion of the causes and research into treatments of Autoimmune Diseases
Hormones and Autoimmunity
The available information supports the concept that sex steroid hormones influence the expression
(symptoms and severity) of some autoimmune diseases.
Endocrine Autoimmunity
This article discusses endocrine autoimmunity, its risk
factors and specific disorders and treatments.
Progress In Autoimmune Diseases.
This article explains autoimmunity in terms a lay person
can understand
Autoimmunity - A Major Women's Health Issue.
Autoimmune related diseases affect women at much
greater rates than men.
Coping With Autoimmunity.
Helpful suggestions for living with any chronic illness.
A Self Besieged.
The Role of Autoimmunity in Brain Disorders
Checking Out Your Doctor.
This article provides Assistance in checking out the background of your doctor.
Rebooting - A Promise for Autoimmune Diseases?
Johns Hopkins University researchers have developed a
new technique in treating autoimmune disease patients
which reboots the immune system with results that have
cured some patients while dramatically improving the
health of others.
Autoimmunity: An Additional Risk Factor for Atherosclerosis
Atherosclerosis, best known in lay terms as hardening of the arteries, is
the number one cause of death in the industrialized world. It is one of the
main factors responsible for heart attacks and stroke.
Autoimmunity - The Common Thread
This informative article provides a comphrensive discussion about the common thread
between autoimmune diseases.
Autoimmunity in inner ear disease being studied
This article discusses a study on autoimmune inner disease. This deisease has affected the hearing of radio broadcaster, Rush Limbaugh.
Ear manifestations of autoimmune disorders
--by Vijay S. Dayal, M.D., F.A.C.S., The University of Chicago Medical
Center, Chicago, Illinois
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