People go to great lengths to maintain youthful-looking skin with masks, creams and serums. Now, researchers have discovered ...

Although manuka honey may not treat the underlying cause of psoriasis, research suggests it may help reduce skin inflammation ...

Taitia Shelow and Caroline Graettinger get ready to face another day grappling with a rare autoimmune disease called ...

In What’s It Like To… New Zealanders from all walks of life share stories of health & wellbeing. Here, Anita Hedges shares ...

Living with animals is thought to have profound effects on our immunity – potentially reducing the risk of allergies, eczema ...

Even for a tropical country like ours that gets plenty of sunshine, almost 80% of the population suffers from Vitamin D ...

Autoimmune disease symptoms vary greatly depending on which part of the body is affected, but some common symptoms include ...

When the immune system malfunctions and attacks its own cells, this can cause more than 80 types of autoimmune diseases, such as lupus, multiple sclerosis, and rheumatoid arthritis ...

Scleroderma can be difficult to diagnose because it can affect different parts of the body and take many forms. It affects an ...

She was diagnosed with alopecia areata, an autoimmune condition that disrupts regular hair growth, at just 18 months old and ...

Objectives Behçet disease (BD) is a complex vasculitis with both autoimmune and autoinflammatory features. Despite specific ...

The manufacturing process was changed and the epidemic ended. In a specific river area of Brazil, an autoimmune skin disease called pemphigus foliaceus is associated with bites of a black fly that ...