General practitioner examining a patient's hand for signs of rheumatoid arthritis. A breakthrough in cancer and autoimmune disease therapy could unlock a whole new frontier in medicine. Scientists are ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . WASHINGTON — Preexisting autoimmune diseases do not increase mortality risk in patients treated with immune ...

Immunotherapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors has revolutionised cancer treatment by unleashing T-cell responses against tumours, yet it can precipitate immune-related adverse events affecting both ...

BALTIMORE — The anti-interleukin-6 (IL-6) antibody drug tocilizumab shows efficacy in the treatment of patients with autoimmune limbic encephalitis (ALE) who do not respond to rituximab, new research ...

“My year of unraveling” is how a despairing Christy Morrill described nightmarish months when his immune system hijacked his brain. What’s called autoimmune encephalitis attacks the organ that makes ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: My 28-year-old son is in the hospital. He hasn’t been acting like himself for a few weeks (not sleeping nor eating well), and he suddenly had four seizures. The doctors are worried ...

Have you ever found yourself searching for a word you should know, forgetting what you were just doing, or feeling mentally foggy for no obvious reason? These everyday lapses are common and are most ...

Psychiatric comorbidities were the strongest independent predictors of unfavourable outcomes in autoimmune encephalitis (AE); however, severe infections reflected acute disease severity rather than ...

Autoimmune neurological diseases are conditions where the immune system attacks nerve cells. Damage to neuronal cells can lead to a variety of neurologic and psychiatric symptoms. Autoimmune diseases ...