Autoimmune Diseases Linked to Spike in Post-MI Events Autoimmune Diseases Linked to Spike in Post-MI Events
The findings highlight the need for evidence-based screening and management guidelines for cardiovascular disease in these high-risk patients, an observer says.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines)
Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines - September 15, 2022 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: news
Dementia warning: The sign in your hair that may raise your risk of dementia 'threefold'
Increasing evidence is supporting a link between autoimmune diseases and the development of cognitive impairment and vascular damage. This connection, researchers believe, may be attributable to similarities in the conditions' inflammatory markers. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - September 15, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Rheumatic Diseases and ART Pregnancies: Things to Consider Rheumatic Diseases and ART Pregnancies: Things to Consider
Karmela Kim Chan, MD, and Caroline H. Siegel, MD, MS, give an update on what ' s known about the use of assisted reproductive technology (ART) in patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases.Hospital for Special Surgery (Source: Medscape Rheumatology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Rheumatology Headlines - September 14, 2022 Category: Rheumatology Tags: Rheumatology Commentary Source Type: news
Consumer Health: What do you know about these 3 rare rheumatic diseases?
September is Rheumatic Disease Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn about three rare rheumatic diseases: Behcet's disease, Churg-Strauss syndrome and Takayasu's arteritis. Behcet's disease Behcet's disease, also called Behcet's syndrome, is a rare disorder that causes blood vessel inflammation throughout your body. The disease may be an autoimmune disorder, which means the body's immune system mistakenly attacks some of its own healthy cells. It's likely that genetic and environmental factors play a… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - September 14, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Bain, others invest in Nimbus Therapeutics' $125M round. Here's what the CEO had to say.
Nimbus Therapeutics last made headlines in 2016, when the Cambridge-based company sold a drug for the liver disease NASH to Gilead Sciences (Nasdaq: GILD) for a clean $1.2 billion — including $400 million up front. Since then, the company has quietly shifted its focus to autoimmune disease drugs, targeting the skin disorder psoriasis and certain cancers. Nimbus got a boost to those efforts on Monday. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - September 12, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Rowan Walrath Source Type: news
Novel Study Offers Clues to Sex Bias in Lupus Incidence Novel Study Offers Clues to Sex Bias in Lupus Incidence
Researchers compared immune cells in cisgender and transgender subjects to investigate the role of sex hormones independently from chromosomes in a study on sex bias in autoimmune disease.MDedge News (Source: Medscape Dermatology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Dermatology Headlines - September 12, 2022 Category: Dermatology Tags: Rheumatology News Source Type: news
Experimental Drug Shows Promise Against Lupus
THURSDAY, Sept. 8, 2022 -- An experimental drug that has been shown to treat rashes in people with lupus may also help with lupus-related joint pain.
Affecting as many as 1.5 million people in the United States, lupus is an autoimmune disease in... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - September 8, 2022 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
These Environmental Factors Increase the Risk of IBD
During the past 60 years, experts have documented a steep rise in the incidence of both ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease—the two medical conditions that make up most cases of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). For decades, this rise was confined to North America, Western Europe, and other industrialized nations. While there’s some evidence that the rise in IBD has slowed down or even plateaued in those places, IBD is becoming increasingly common in newly industrialized countries in Asia and other parts of the world.
There’s no question that genetic factors play a part in a person’s risk f...
Source: TIME: Health - September 2, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Markham Heid Tags: Uncategorized Disease freelance healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Researchers take aim at cancer drugs ’ toxic side effects
The patient was a success story, his advanced melanoma erased by a popular new cancer treatment. Known as immune checkpoint inhibitors, the drugs coax the immune system to seek and destroy cancer cells—and in this case, they “worked beautifully,” says Kerry Reynolds, an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) who helped care for the man.
But about a month after an infusion, without a melanoma cell detectable in his body, the 64-year-old was admitted to the hospital, gravely ill. The drugs were sending his immune system into overdrive, wreaking havoc on his colon and nervous system.
Doctors strug...
Source: ScienceNOW - August 31, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
Lupus, MS and Other Autoimmune Disorders Raise Heart Risks
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 31, 2022 -- Research has linked heart disease to specific autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. Now, a huge study shows that autoimmune diseases as a group increase your chances of developing heart... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - August 31, 2022 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Pill to Counter Lupus Shows Promise in Mouse Study
THURSDAY, Aug. 25, 2022 -- An experimental new pill could boost treatment of the autoimmune disease lupus, researchers reported at the American Chemical Society ' s annual meeting.
The pill has been shown in mouse studies to inhibit lupus symptoms,... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - August 25, 2022 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Autoimmune Patients' COVID Vax Durability Studied In-Depth Autoimmune Patients' COVID Vax Durability Studied In-Depth
Patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases have weaker vaccine-induced immunity to COVID but are able to build a humoral immune response that with boosters can catch up to healthy controls.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines)
Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines - August 19, 2022 Category: Primary Care Tags: Rheumatology News Source Type: news
Science Saturday: Do environmental exposures contribute to human diseases?
An accumulation of environmental chemicals, pollutants, microbes, and particulates may be living inside each of us — acquired from the air we breathe, the food we eat, products we touch, and the water we drink. These sometimes-harmful exposures can potentially interact with our genes to fuel diseases, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory illnesses, autoimmune diseases, and stroke. Research sh ows environmental factors are associated with more than 80% of human diseases and nearly 1 in 6 deaths worldwide. … (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - August 13, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
COVID in Autoimmune Disease Patients: It's Getting Better
(MedPage Today) -- Patients with autoimmune diseases were still getting COVID-19 like everyone else when the Omicron wave hit, but -- also like everyone else -- the worst outcomes had become far less frequent compared with the early months... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - August 12, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: news
From the archive: Are western lifestyles causing a rise in autoimmune diseases? | podcast
Could the food we eat and the air we breathe be damaging our immune systems? The number of people with autoimmune diseases, from rheumatoid arthritis to type 1 diabetes, began to increase around 40 years ago in the west. Now, some are also emerging in countries that had never seen the diseases before.In this episode from January 2022, Ian Sample speaks to the genetic scientist and consultant gastroenterologist James Lee about how this points to what western lifestyles might be doing to our health, and how genetics could reveal exactly how our immune systems are malfunctioningArchive: King 5 News, WXYZ Channel 7Continue rea...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 11, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Presented by Ian Sample, produced by Madeleine Finlay, sound design by Axel Kacouti é, and the executive producer was Max Sanderson Tags: Science Biology Genetics Source Type: news
