Paraneoplastic pemphigus is a rare autoimmune skin condition that causes blisters and oral lesions. It usually develops due to underlying cancer. Treatment is essential for managing symptoms and ...

Patients with autoimmune skin diseases (ASDs) showed significantly lower risks for death after cancer treatment than those without ASDs, especially those with alopecia areata or Sjögren syndrome. A ...

ORLANDO — Advances in treating medical conditions rarely emerge in a straight line. Oftentimes, progress comes in fits and starts, and therapies to treat cutaneous lupus erythematosus and ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday approved Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:REGN) and Sanofi SA’s (NASDAQ:SNY) Dupixent (dupilumab) for adult patients with bullous pemphigoid ...

The initiation, progression, and remission of autoimmune skin diseases are multifactorial—akin to the rolling of several “etiology dice.” (a) In healthy individuals, autoimmune responses are kept ...

The central dogma proposed that genetic information predominantly transfers from DNA to RNA during gene expression to make a functional product protein. This absolute theory has been debunked because ...

Skin manifestations are common in small- and medium-vessel autoimmune vasculitis, and clinical risk factors might help in sorting out who has severe systemic disease for some subtypes, studies showed.

Your immune system was supposed to protect you from threats, but sometimes it gets confused about what counts as an enemy and starts attacking your own healthy tissues. This internal betrayal happens ...

Lupus erythematosus panniculitis (LEP) is one of the less common types of lupus, which causes painful lesions under the skin. Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease affecting about 1.5 million people ...

Explore 25 unexplained medical conditions that still puzzle doctors. From neurological enigmas to autoimmune riddles, ...