April 10, 2010
Rheumatoid arthritis linked to vitamin D deficiency, study suggests
Women living in the northeastern United States are more likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis, suggesting a link between the autoimmune disease and vitamin D deficiency.
April 9, 2010
Rheumatoid Arthritis Linked To Vitamin D Deficiency
Women living in the northeastern United States are more likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis (RA), suggesting a link between the autoimmune disease and vitamin D deficiency, says a new study led by a Boston University School of Public Health researcher. In the paper, which appears online in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, a spatial analysis led by Dr...
June 15, 2009
Two Gene Locations Linked To Multiple Sclerosis Discovered
Australian and New Zealand researchers have accelerated research into multiple sclerosis by discovering two new locations of genes which will help to unravel the causes of MS and other autoimmune disease.
June 8, 2009
New Lead For Autoimmune Disease From Chinese Medicine
A major challenge in treating autoimmune disorders has been suppressing inflammatory attacks on body tissues without generally suppressing immune function. Now, a drug from Chinese medicine shows potential for easing these disorders. In both mice and humans, it selectively inhibits development of Th17 cells, newly-recognized immune cells that were recently implicated in inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, eczema and psoriasis. It also eased a multiple-sclerosis-like autoimmune disease in mice.
April 9, 2009
Autoimmune Disease May Be Exacerbated By Vitamin D
Deficiency in vitamin D has been widely regarded as contributing to autoimmune disease, but a review appearing in Autoimmunity Reviews explains that low levels of vitamin D in patients with autoimmune disease may be a result rather than a cause of disease and that supplementing with vitamin D may actually exacerbate autoimmune disease.