Autoimmune Diseases (General)

Latest News
• NIEHS Initiates Clinical Center Research Group to Study and Treat Autoimmune Muscle Disorders (02/26/2001, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
• Experimental Therapy May Lead to Better Multiple Sclerosis Treatment (01/22/2001, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

From the National Institutes of Health
• Autoimmune Diseases: An Attack on Self Tissues (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• Understanding Autoimmune Diseases (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

Anatomy/Physiology

• Understanding the Immune System (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Cancer Institute)

Clinical Trials

• ClinicalTrials.gov: Autoimmune Diseases (National Institutes of Health)

Coping

• Coping with an Autoimmune Disease (American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association)

Diagnosis/Symptoms

• Antinuclear Antibody Test (ANA) (MedicineNet, Inc.)

Research

• Experimental Therapy May Lead to Better Multiple Sclerosis Treatment (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• NIEHS Initiates Clinical Center Research Group to Study and Treat Autoimmune Muscle Disorders (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
• Reports From Special Environmental Health Issue Explore Links to Autoimmune Diseases - Diabetes, Lupus, Multiple Sclerosis (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)

Specific Conditions/Aspects

• Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome (MedicineNet, Inc.)
• Autoimmune Lymphoproliferative Syndrome: An Introduction for ALPS Patients and Their Families (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) - links to PDF file
• Goodpasture Syndrome (National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse)
• Questions and Answers about Reiter's Syndrome (National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)
• What Is Pemphigus? (National Pemphigus Foundation)

Treatment

• Plasmapheresis and Autoimmune Disease (Muscular Dystrophy Association)
• Researchers Treat Muscle Disease With Vaccine: Studies Promising for Myasthenia Gravis, Other Autoimmune Diseases (Muscular Dystrophy Association)

Organizations

• American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association
• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
• National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases

Women

• Autoimmune Disease in Women - The Facts (American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association)
• Enemy Within (National Women's Health Information Center)