Autoimmune diseases are conditions in which the immune system becomes unbalanced and turns on the body instead of protecting it.
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Are we too clean for our own good?
Mounting research suggests our quest to be clean might make children sicker, not healthier.
Don’t skimp on the sunshine vitamin
Sunshine and the vitamin D it delivers play a key role in your health.
Discovery casts light on workings of the immune system
The discovery could lead to new therapeutic approaches to a wide range of illnesses, including asthma, inflammatory bowel disease and psoriasis.
OMRF receives $3.2 million grant to study rare immune disease
A four-year grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute will help OMRF researcher Courtney Montgomery and her team determine the roles of specific immune cells associated with sarcoidosis.
New OMRF grant will focus on autoimmune condition
The project will focus on comparing certain immune cells in patients with Sjögren’s to those of healthy controls.
