The American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA) wants to help you learn your family's AQ. AQ is a play on IQ and stands for Autoimmune Quotient. It's about knowing how likely you or a loved one is to develop an autoimmune disease, based on the prevalence of these diseases and your family history.
The U.S. Senate has designated May 2007 as National Autoimmune Diseases Awareness Month (ADAM), calling on Americans to learn more about these diseases that are still not well-known or well-understood by the medical and research communities and the general public at large.
A report in the March 22 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine reveals that a pinpointed region of chromosome 17, a gene named NALP1, could be a new target of treatment for autoimmune diseases.
Legislation has been introduced by Congress to name May National Autoimmune Diseases Awareness Month (ADAM) in order to call increased attention to a family of diseases that are still not well-known or well-understood by the medical and research communities and the general public at large.
Claims that Anna Nicole Smith suffered from lupus are not surprising. Many of the reports of how Smith was affected by her newly disclosed condition are consistent with a diagnosis of lupus. Autoimmune diseases have been cited in the top ten leading causes of all deaths among U.S. women younger than 65.
A report in the January issue of Nature magazine announces that one more step in understanding what may cause the body to attack itself in its war against autoimmune disease has been discovered by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Whitehead Institute, says the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA), a national nonprofit patient advocacy organization.
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