Articles tagged with 'autoimmunity' | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

The National Institutes of Health has launched its first agencywide Strategic Plan for Autoimmune Disease Research, a five-year initiative aimed at accelerating research into diseases that affect an estimated 50 million Americans and cost more than …

For most of his life, Jake Raden was active and healthy.  A successful asset manager with a blue-chip financial institution, Raden traveled the world and worked out regularly. Except for managing a genetic predisposition for high cholesterol, Raden …

Although rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease with no cure, a tailored, multidisciplinary treatment approach at Cedars-Sinai’s Inflammatory Arthritis Clinical Center helps patients get back to the activities they enjoy.“It may take trying …

Scleroderma is an autoimmune disease characterized by thickening and scarring of the skin and vital organs, and the narrowing of the blood vessels which lead to poor circulation.  An estimated 100,000 people in the U.S. are living with …