By: Sara Le | 2010-03-26 | Diseases and Conditions Autoimmune liver disease is also known as autoimmune hepatitis, and it affects peoples of different ethnic groups. The clinical signs and symptoms and outcome can vary from person to person. Some patients will respond better than others to treatment by medication. read more
By: Helena Sanson | 2010-03-29 | Diseases and Conditions The immune system, or autoimmune system, prevents the body from getting ill and it also fights off illness when we do get sick. The autoimmune system is set up to attack foreign substances in the body and fights them off so our bodies are constantly protected. An autoimmune disease causes the immune system to turn on itself. This leaves the body vulnerable to diseases, bacteria, and illness with no way to ward it off. read more
By: Dominic Lin | 2010-11-30 | Article Marketing For many, the symptoms may include tiredness, aching muscles and low fever. However, each individual will experience symptoms of varying types and degrees. read more
By: Michael Kirsch, M.D. | 2010-05-20 | Diseases and Conditions International travelers should protect themselves against hepatitis A. This viral infection is infectious, widespead and preventable with an effective vaccine. Travelers should receive advice from a travel physician to learn how to minimize their risk. read more
By: TwertBrown | 2011-02-15 | Health & Fitness There are many different signs and symptoms of hepatitis, depending on their causes. The most common are: fatigue, muscle pain, common cold-like symptoms, fever, yellowing of the skin and whites of the eyes, abdominal pain, dark urine, and loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, constipation and itching without rash. read more
By: Sue Jonesie | 2011-01-26 | Health & Fitness There are several types of hepatitis (hep) viruses and this article is just about hepatitis A (or hep A). One of the main causes of infection is bad hygiene so it is vital to wash your hands after using the toilet as the hepatitis A virus is passed in the bowel motions of an infected person. read more
By: Jim00 Wilson | 2010-11-26 | Medicine The hepatitis A vaccine was first used to protect children form of the virus in 1996 in the United States. Abruptly thereafter, the use of Hepatitis A vaccine was more frequent and spread to other parts of the world also... read more
By: Kidney Advisor | 2010-10-16 | Alternative Medicine Warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia is an extremely rare form of anemia affecting only one in eighty thousand individuals. This type of anemia is caused when the red blood cells are destroyed by warm antibodies which are activated by warm temperatures such as the body temperature. Warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia can occur in individuals of all ages but typically occurs in people after the age of forty and is seen more commonly in women than in men. read more
By: Writers Cafe | 2010-11-17 | Health & Fitness Our body depends on its immune system to stave off diseases and several alternative illnesses. When the system becomes modified in such a manner that instead of protecting the body it begins to attack it and caused damage, we tend to are said to have an autoimmune disease. Symptoms vary from disease to disease and from patient to patient. read more
By: Helena Sanson | 2010-03-29 | Skin care There a lot of symptoms associated with autoimmune diseases. Some may appear to fall under the same category as autoimmune disease, but they are really unrelated. If you every have any doubts, seek out the care of physician to get the best diagnoses. Many times one or two of these symptoms, or other problems, will come up. It is usually only a real issues when you have more than one at a time or they reoccur often. read more
By: Ms. Sunita | 2010-09-15 | Business Ideas Autoimmune disorders result from an overactive immune response of a body working against its own cells. read more
By: John Laurusonis, MD | 2010-11-10 | Medicine Everybody pretty much knows that hepatitis is caused by viruses. Hepatitis A is spread by the fecal-oral route, and usually starts with nausea, loss of appetite, weight loss, a painful swollen liver, and turning yellow for a few weeks. It is usually resolved by natural defenses unless the person becomes a chronic carrier. Hepatitis B and C are different. They are spread by contaminated blood, by sexual activity (particularly men having sex with men), and intravenous drug abuse. read more
By: John Laurusonis, MD | 2010-11-10 | Medicine We have a well-proven and safe vaccine against the DNA virus that causes Hepatitis B. In fact, over a billion doses have been given with an excellent safety record. If everybody in the world received the Hepatitis B vaccination in infancy at childbirth, the virus should be virtually eliminated. But the cold hard facts are that over one-third, or approximately two billion of the world's population, have been infected in their lives with the virus at one time or another. read more
By: ezuser_ 7435 | 2010-11-02 | Business Drive blockbuster revenue with autoimmune breakthroughs The autoimmune market is proving that the era of the blockbuster is not dead. Of 14 brands already at or expected to reach blockbuster status, half generate at least $3 billion annually. Nine mid-level products will generate $400 million, at minimum, by 2014. For autoimmune drugs, reaching blockbuster-level success is an expectation as much a read more