Months without answers: The patient suffered constant itching for months, visiting multiple doctors without relief or a clear ...

In atopic dermatitis (AD), the itch-scratch cycle is tied to skin inflammation exacerbation that accelerates the progression of the disease, thus impacting the patient’s quality of life, where IL-31 ...

A population-based study has shown a slightly elevated risk for patients’ developing skin disorders, including alopecia areata (AA), alopecia totalis (AT), vitiligo, and bullous pemphigoid (BP), more ...

People with autoimmune skin diseases had significantly better cancer survival outcomes than others. Survival benefits were most notable in people with alopecia areata and Sjögren syndrome. Findings ...

Researchers analyzed data of 178,977 children with atopic dermatitis and/or persistent asthma (median age, 11.8 years; 47.2% girls) from PEDSnet, a pediatric clinical research network in the US, to ...

Bullous pemphigoid is a rare autoimmune disease that affects your skin. It’s a chronic disease that causes itchy, fluid-filled blisters to form all over your body. Although people of all ages, ...

I spent every night tearing my skin apart, but specialists refused to listen and insisted it was dry skin or an allergic reaction.

Inflammatory skin disorders comprise a diverse set of conditions exhibiting unique characteristics. Our objective was to systematically compare the affected and unaffected skin of individuals with ...

The initiation, progression, and remission of autoimmune skin diseases are multifactorial—akin to the rolling of several “etiology dice.” (a) In healthy individuals, autoimmune responses are kept ...

Unbearable itching, crushing fatigue and years on “standby” waiting for a liver transplant became this 43-year-old divemaster ...