Testosterone may protect men from autoimmune diseases

Enlarge / Strong man is strong. (credit: Lauren Mitchell / Flickr) Testosterone. Source of prostates and testes, muscles and machismo, chest hair, and according to some, even math skills. Its levels are only one of the biological differences between males and females, but they may help to explain another: the discrepancies in the incidence of […]

Tired and breathless? YOU could be suffering from a life-threatening auto-immune condition

Scleroderma is rare and results in hard, thickened areas of skin, and can sometimes lead to problems with internal organs and blood vessels. According to the NHS, it’s caused by the immune system attacking the connective tissue underneath the skin and around internal organs and blood vessels. It varies in severity, but can sometimes lead […]

Lupus symptoms: Scientists discover TRIGGER for life-threatening autoimmune disease

However, new research may have discovered the trigger for the condition, as well as other autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, Crohn’s disease and rheumatoid arthritis. Lupus affects 50,000 people in the UK, mostly between the ages of 15 and 50. A study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation has identified certain cells that […]

Dementia: Autoimmune diseases could heighten RISK of developing condition in later life

Diseases such as multiple sclerosis and coeliac disease could increase the risk of dementia, the study published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health said. Researchers at the University of Oxford looked at the data of more than 1.8 million people admitted to hospital with autoimmune disease from 1998 to 2012 in England. They […]