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Lupus: Finding the Best Treatment Option for You
Read More: Lupus: Finding the Best Treatment Option for YouMay is Lupus Awareness Month. Did you know the word “lupus” is Latin for wolf? We know that sounds random, but there is meaning behind the name. Back in the 13th century, a healthcare provider (HCP) said skin lesions from the disease resembled a bite mark from a wolf. Usually when people talk about lupus,…
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Addison’s Disease 101
Read More: Addison’s Disease 101April is Adrenal Disease Awareness Month. You probably don’t think much about your adrenal glands. They’re small hormone-releasing organs that sit at the top of the kidneys. But don’t mistake their smallness for weakness: They play a big role in your health. The adrenal glands produce hormones including cortisol, aldosterone and sex hormones. Cortisol is…
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I Worried It Was All In My Head — Until I Was Finally Diagnosed with Addison’s Disease
Read More: I Worried It Was All In My Head — Until I Was Finally Diagnosed with Addison’s DiseaseApril is Adrenal Disease Awareness Month. As told to Nicole Audrey Spector In high school, I started feeling not quite like myself, just a lot less energy than I usually had. It seemed perfectly normal to believe it was stress-related. School was getting more intense as college neared and then there was the normal teen…
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Clinically Speaking: Questions and Answers About Graves’ disease
Read More: Clinically Speaking: Questions and Answers About Graves’ diseaseYour thyroid is a little butterfly-shaped gland in your neck that makes and releases hormones. These hormones help regulate many important body functions like metabolism and body temperature. If your thyroid isn’t working properly, you may develop a thyroid condition, like Graves’ disease. “Women are more likely to have Graves’ disease than men, and we…
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Breaking Down Graves’ Disease Treatment Options
Read More: Breaking Down Graves’ Disease Treatment OptionsYou might not spend that much time thinking about your thyroid, but it’s doing an awful lot for you. The small butterfly-shaped gland in your neck helps regulate things like your body temperature, heart rate and metabolism. When you have Graves’ disease, an autoimmune condition that affects five times as many women as men, the…
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¿Qué efectos tiene el lupus en la salud sexual y reproductiva?
Read More: ¿Qué efectos tiene el lupus en la salud sexual y reproductiva?English Hay varios tipos de lupus, pero las personas frecuentemente usan la palabra “lupus” para referirse al lupus eritematoso sistémico (LES), el tipo más común de ese trastorno. Todos los tipos de lupus son trastornos autoinmunitarios que hacen que el sistema inmunitario de tu cuerpo ataque órganos y tejidos. A pesar de que el lupus…
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Lupus and Reproductive Health: What You Need to Know
Read More: Lupus and Reproductive Health: What You Need to KnowThere are several types of lupus, but people often use the word “lupus” to mean systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), the most common form of the disease. All types of lupus are autoimmune conditions that cause your body’s immune system to attack organs and tissues. Despite the fact that lupus overwhelmingly affects women in their reproductive…
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The Connection Between Autoimmune Disease and Dry Eye Disease
Read More: The Connection Between Autoimmune Disease and Dry Eye DiseaseJuly is Dry Eye Awareness Month. Blink twice if you’re reading this. How do your eyes feel? Are they irritated? Do you feel like you have grains of sand in your eyes but you’re nowhere near the beach? Do you have an autoimmune disease? That last question may seem random, but having an autoimmune disease…
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Graves’ Disease 101
Read More: Graves’ Disease 101July is Graves’ Disease Awareness Month. Graves’ disease is an autoimmune condition that mainly affects your thyroid. Prompt diagnosis and treatment is important because, without treatment, the disease can lead to serious health problems such as heart failure and osteoporosis. This is especially important to note because women and people assigned female at birth are…
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Comprender las investigaciones de lupus
Read More: Comprender las investigaciones de lupusEnglish Aproximadamente 1.5 millones de personas en Estados Unidos tienen lupus, un trastorno que ocurre cuando el sistema inmunitario ataca órganos y tejidos saludables. De ellas, 9 de cada 10 son mujeres. El lupus es un trastorno complicado que puede ser difícil de diagnosticar e incluso más difícil de tratar. Los científicos estudian el lupus…
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Understanding Lupus Research
Read More: Understanding Lupus ResearchAbout 1.5 million people in the United States have lupus, a disease that happens when the immune system attacks healthy organs and tissues. Of these, 9 out of 10 are women. Lupus is a complicated disease that can be hard to diagnose and even harder to treat. Scientists are looking at lupus from many different…
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The Great Girlfriends Podcast: The Surprising Signs Your Body Might Be Battling Lupus
Read More: The Great Girlfriends Podcast: The Surprising Signs Your Body Might Be Battling LupusWhether you’ve been diagnosed, know someone who has, or simply want to understand more about this autoimmune disease, Dr. Williams brings her medical expertise while Tracy shares her real-life experience battling lupus. Together, they reveal what many women endure in silence—and why awareness is key to advocacy and healing. Key topics include: The hidden signs…
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How Is Lupus Diagnosed?
Read More: How Is Lupus Diagnosed?May is Lupus Awareness Month. + Infographic text What is lupus? Lupus is a chronic condition where your body’s immune system attacks tissues and organs. 9 out of 10 people with lupus are female. Black, American Indian and Alaska Native women are 2–3x more likely to get lupus than white women. Almost 1 in 2…
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Common Types of Lupus
Read More: Common Types of LupusMay is Lupus Awareness Month. + Infographic text Lupus is an autoimmune disease that happens when the body’s immune system attacks its own tissues and causes harmful inflammation. About 1.5 million Americans are living with some form of lupus. 9 out 10 people with lupus are women. Common types of lupus Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) …
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El alto costo de vivir con lupus
Read More: El alto costo de vivir con lupusEnglish Niranjana Parthasarathi, M.D., empezó a experimentar fatiga extrema y dolor de las articulaciones unos años después de su 20° cumpleaños.. Unos meses después, le diagnosticaron lupus. “Estudiaba medicina, así que sabía lo grave que esto podía ser”, dijo, recordando como una de sus compañeras había fallecido trágicamente debido a complicaciones de este trastorno autoinmunitario…
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I Still Live a Full and Active Life with Lupus
Read More: I Still Live a Full and Active Life with LupusAs told to Marnie Goodfriend I’ve always been a thrill seeker. At age 22, I wanted to experience life to the fullest, and I enjoyed snowboarding, traveling — and even bungee jumping. I was healthy and had never had anything more than a cold until I started experiencing extreme fatigue, joint pain, and swelling in…
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Autoimmune Disease & Women
Read More: Autoimmune Disease & Women+ Infographic text Did you know that women are more likely to have an autoimmune disease than men? As many as 4 out of 5 people with an autoimmune disease are women. What is an autoimmune disease? An autoimmune disease develops when the body’s immune system attacks its own healthy cells, organs or tissues. Autoimmune…
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Sjögren’s Disease 101
Read More: Sjögren’s Disease 101Sjögren’s (pronounced show-grins) disease is an autoimmune condition that affects the moisture-making glands in the body. The disease can affect the eyes, mouth, nasal passages — even the vagina — and cause extreme dryness and chronic pain among other life-altering symptoms. Unfortunately, it can take years to get a diagnosis for Sjögren’s in part because…
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The High Cost of Living with Lupus
Read More: The High Cost of Living with LupusNiranjana Parthasarathi, M.D., started experiencing extreme fatigue and joint pain in her 20s. Within months, she was diagnosed with lupus. “As a medical student, I knew how serious it could be,” she said, recalling how one of her peers had tragically passed away from complications of the autoimmune disease during her internship. Parthasarathi went on…
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I Won Three Olympic Gold Medals All While Keeping My Sjögren’s Disease a Secret from the Sports World
Read More: I Won Three Olympic Gold Medals All While Keeping My Sjögren’s Disease a Secret from the Sports WorldMy second year of professional soccer started out great. I worked hard during training, and I got stronger and faster every day. Then one afternoon — out of the blue — a tsunami of fatigue washed over me. It was so bad I couldn’t climb the stairs to my second-floor apartment without stopping to rest.…
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FAQs about Lupus
Read More: FAQs about LupusAnyone who’s a fan of the hit TV series “House,” starring Hugh Laurie, knows lupus inevitably came up as a possible diagnosis for the mystery condition of the episode (and they were always wrong, except for that one time). The show is right about one thing — lupus has a wide variety of symptoms, shows…
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Lupus is A Cruel Disease — But Through Living With it, I’ve Found Balance and Grace
Read More: Lupus is A Cruel Disease — But Through Living With it, I’ve Found Balance and GraceAs told to Nicole Audrey Spector I was in my late twenties and working a demanding — but wholly fulfilling — job at a large nonprofit in New York City. In addition to dedicating myself to my career, I was also going full force with physical exercise, had an active social life and was deep…
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HGTV’s Jenn Todryk Gets Candid About Managing Hashimoto’s Disease
Read More: HGTV’s Jenn Todryk Gets Candid About Managing Hashimoto’s DiseaseOn her hit HGTV television series, “No Demo Reno,” Jenn Todryk, 35, is known for her high-energy approach to remodeling homes without a total demolition. Through her blog and Instagram account, Todryk gets candid with her fans about her design work, family and how she lives with Hashimoto’s disease, a chronic autoimmune thyroid condition that…
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Hashimoto’s Disease 101
Read More: Hashimoto’s Disease 101I was on a morning walk getting my steps in when I passed a car window and my reflection stopped me in my tracks. My face was pale, puffy and round, shining like the moon in the early rays of the sun. My hands flew to my neck, which looked swollen. I felt around, nothing…
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Arthritis, Atopic dermatitis, Autoimmune disease, Chronic conditions, Crohn’s, Crohn’s disease, Lupus, Rheumatoid arthritis, Skin, Skin health
Autoimmune Diseases 101
Read More: Autoimmune Diseases 101It’s probably not surprising that heart disease and cancer are the two most common categories of disease in the United States, but would you believe autoimmune disease comes in at number three? About 8% of Americans have an autoimmune disease, and nearly 80% of them are women. With autoimmune disease, the immune system mistakes part…
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Living With Lupus
Read More: Living With LupusMarisa Maese, 40, has been dealing with health problems since her mid-20s. They started with her first pregnancy, when she experienced complications from fibroids, was placed on bed rest and gave birth prematurely. “Since then, my life has never really been the same,” she said. Maese experienced a series of reproductive health issues, along with…
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What Is Alopecia? It’s No Laughing Matter for Millions of Black American Women
Read More: What Is Alopecia? It’s No Laughing Matter for Millions of Black American WomenBy Danita Peoples, Wayne State University The Oscar slap that overshadowed the Academy Awards ceremony was sparked by a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s lack of hair – with husband Will Smith objecting violently to comedian Chris Rock mocking the actress’s shaved head. Away from the recriminations over what could be perceived as a mean-spirited…
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Autoimmune disease, Chronic conditions, Coronavirus, Covid long-haulers, COVID-19, Lupus, Multiple sclerosis, Rheumatoid arthritis
Despite Its Disastrous Effects, Covid-19 Offers Some Gifts to Medicine — an Immunology Expert Explains What It Can Teach Us About Autoimmune Disease
Read More: Despite Its Disastrous Effects, Covid-19 Offers Some Gifts to Medicine — an Immunology Expert Explains What It Can Teach Us About Autoimmune DiseaseBy Dario Ghersi, University of Nebraska Omaha For all the misery that the pandemic has wrought, it has also opened up a vast storehouse of knowledge about medical issues beyond COVID-19. While it’s still too early to draw conclusions, evidence is emerging of links between autoimmune disorders and the virus that causes COVID-19. As a…
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How mRNA and DNA Vaccines Could Soon Treat Cancers, HIV, Autoimmune Disorders and Genetic Diseases
Read More: How mRNA and DNA Vaccines Could Soon Treat Cancers, HIV, Autoimmune Disorders and Genetic DiseasesBy DNA and mRNA vaccines are much better at producing T cells than are normal vaccines.NIAID/NIH via Flickr What makes nucleic acid vaccines different from traditional vaccines? Most vaccines induce antibody responses. Antibodies are the primary immune mechanism that blocks infections. As we began to study nucleic acid vaccines, we discovered that because these vaccines…
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Hashimoto’s Disease Brought the Curtain Down on My Career As a Soloist in the NYC Ballet
Read More: Hashimoto’s Disease Brought the Curtain Down on My Career As a Soloist in the NYC BalletAs told to Erica Rimlinger January is Thyroid Awareness Month. From my first ballet class at the age of 3, the only thing I wanted to do was to dance. My parents tried to entice me into a well-rounded program of childhood athletics with soccer and gymnastics, but I only wanted to leap, twirl, plié…
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Fast Facts: Everything You Need to Know About the Thyroid
Read More: Fast Facts: Everything You Need to Know About the ThyroidJanuary is National Thyroid Awareness Month. Medically reviewed by Dr. Uzma M. Siddiqui. In the United States, approximately 20 million people have thyroid disease, and women are five to eight times more likely to develop a problem than men. Up to 60% of people with a thyroid condition are unaware of their condition since the…
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Autoimmune disease, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Gastrointestinal health, Gi health, Healthy Eating, Nutrition, Stomach
A Healthy Microbiome Builds a Strong Immune System That Could Help Defeat Covid-19
Read More: A Healthy Microbiome Builds a Strong Immune System That Could Help Defeat Covid-19By Ana Maldonado-Contreras, University of Massachusetts Medical School Takeaways Your gut is home to trillions of bacteria that are vital for keeping you healthy. Some of these microbes help to regulate the immune system. New research, which has not yet been peer reviewed, shows the presence of certain bacteria in the gut may reveal which…
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Tichina’s Most Important Role
Read More: Tichina’s Most Important RoleWhile Tichina Arnold is known for numerous hit shows like “Martin,” “Happily Divorced,” “Everybody Hates Chris,” and starring on her latest series, CBS’ “The Neighborhood,” her most important role has been taking care of her younger sister, Zenay. The younger Arnold was diagnosed with lupus and six other autoimmune diseases at the age of 32.…
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The Wonderful World of Your Microbiome
Read More: The Wonderful World of Your MicrobiomeGrowing up, we often hear that our individual DNA is unique, but how often do we hear about the uniqueness of our microbiota? The microbiome is the collection of 100 trillion microbial organisms that exist in and on our bodies. These microbes play a vital role in our health, protecting against disease, boosting our immune…
