For some time now, public health officials have been sounding the alarm on Type 2 diabetes, which has been increasing in incidence along with obesity. But as …
Category: Autoimmune disease
Does influenza trigger narcolepsy?
Two years ago, Stanford sleep researcher Emmanuel Mignot, MD, PhD, made headlines when he showed that narcolepsy is an autoimmune disease, caused when patients’ immune systems …
Humans share history – and a fair amount of genetic material – with Neanderthals
If you have found yourself inexplicably offended by Geico's "caveman" commercials, new research may have an explanation: that most humans share up to 4 percent …
Food blogger Jessica Goldman discusses turning dietary restrictions into a culinary adventure
Dietary restrictions like allergies can be a real downer for food-lovers forced to give up their favorite dishes. On the other hand, these "restrictions" can …
Asthma, gamma-interferon, and the mouse that didn't wheeze
In a just-out study, Stanford's Steve Galli, MD, Mang Yu, MD, PhD, and their colleagues induced a condition very closely mimicking asthma's molecular and cellular symptoms, not just the …
Multiple sclerosis doesn't appear to pose pregnancy-related risks
Despite having my daughters at a relatively young age, the fact that I had an autoimmune disease meant my pregnancies were considered high-risk: For each one, …
Does pregnancy put women at risk of autoimmune disease?
There's fascinating new evidence on a possible link between pregnancy and autoimmune diseases, which predominantly affect women of reproductive age. As reported by MSNBC.com today: …
Multiple sclerosis patient shares her story
Approximately 2.5 million people worldwide live with multiple sclerosis, and Stanford Hospital has told the story of one. In the video above, Mary-Lynne Blazzard shares …
Type-2 diabetes an autoimmune disease?
Stanford researchers, led by pathologist Edgar Engleman, MD, reported today in Nature Medicine that type-2 diabetes is looking more and more like an autoimmune disease, …
The future of probiotics
There's an extra organ in your body you may not have known about, and it's made out of bugs - microbes, that is, and there …
Tool could help predict onset of disability for patients with progressive MS
The outcome for multiple sclerosis patients can be difficult to predict: For some the disease moves slowly; for others the disorder leads to a relatively …
Better sleep might benefit rheumatoid arthritis patients
There's more evidence today on the benefits of sleep. A study in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine shows that sleep problems among patients with …
U.S. adults face "significant" risk of developing autoimmune disease
I've long been fascinated by autoimmune diseases - in part because I have one, and in part because there's so much mystery surrounding them. I …
Will you inherit your mom's medical condition?
I have an autoimmune disease and often worry that my two daughters will wind up with it - or a variation of it - someday. …
Restoring hand function with surgery
Someone close to me has scleroderma. I didn't know much about the autoimmune disease before she was diagnosed, but I remember feeling a sense of …
What if gut-bacteria communities "remember" past antibiotic exposures?
The number of beneficial microbes inhabiting each of our intestines is on the order of the number of synaptic connections in the human brain. That's …