Diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease currently requires an invasive procedure. New research identifies a way to identify the disease using a blood draw.
Stanford scientists have dug up a defect at the heart of rheumatoid arthritis: a faulty "anchor" that should be tethering a key molecule to the spot inside immune cells where it has to be in order to do its job. It seems this defect can be reversed with a not yet commercially available small-molecule drug.
New research has confirmed that an antigen in some variants of the flu virus and vaccine can, in rare cases, trigger an autoimmune response leading to narcolepsy.
Rheumatoid arthritis and coronary artery disease share a common culprit: an important type of immune cell, called a macrophage, that has gone haywire. Stanford investigators have zeroed in on a molecular defect in macrophages' metabolic process that drives both disorders.
While reporting a Stanford Medicine magazine story on narcolepsy — and an awfully cute sleepy Chihuahua named Watson -- I remember thinking, "Gosh, this would …
For decades, Stanley Rockson, MD, a Stanford professor of medicine, has been researching possible causes and cures for lymphedema, which affects millions around the world. …
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, scleroderma and liver cirrhosis are just a few of a pantheon of confusingly named, difficult-to-treat and sometimes life-threatening diseases caused by the malfunction of …
Have you ever had one of those dreams where you’re trying as hard as you can to run away but you can’t seem to break …
New research from Sweden has uncovered an unexpectedly strong link between celiac disease and anorexia nervosa. The study of nearly 18,000 women with celiac disease …
Many patients with cancer are now treated with "checkpoint inhibitors." These new drugs release molecular brakes that ordinarily keep immune cells from running amok and damaging healthy tissues. …
The Hedgehog signaling pathway — named after a gene mutation that caused short, spiky protrusions on fruit fly larvae — received much attention in the …
When my daughter was in elementary school she had a classmate with just a few patches of hair on an otherwise bald scalp. The effect …
Receiving a diagnosis of celiac disease can be pretty daunting. The most common inherited autoimmune disease, celiac disease causes a lifelong inability to tolerate gluten, …
I blogged last week about some important new findings concerning the underlying causes of rheumatoid arthritis. As I mentioned then, it takes a long time - it can …
In a new study in Science Translational Medicine, Stanford rheumatologist and immunologist Connie Weyand, MD, and her colleagues have figured out what sparks the aberrant activation …
About 400,000 people in the United States are affected by multiple sclerosis (often referred to by the acronym MS), an autoimmune disorder in which rogue …
