Orencia (abatacept)
Orencia infusion contains the active ingredient abatacept, which is a type of medicine called a selective immunosuppressant. It is used to treat severe forms of rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis is known as an autoimmune disease, because ... [... more]
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Pemphigoid and pemphigus
Pemphigoid and pemphigus are two superficially similar but separate autoimmune diseases that make skin blister. Both are rare (although they seem to be on the increase) and neither can be cured. In autoimmune diseases, the body mistakes part of ... [... more]
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Plaquenil
Hydroxychloroquinine is used in the treatment of some auto-immune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus. In these diseases the body's immune system is over-active and slightly defective. The body develops ... [... more]
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Nivaquine
Nivaquine syrup contains the active ingredient chloroquine sulphate, which is an antimalarial medicine, though it also has other uses, for example, in treating the autoimmune diseases rheumatoid arthritis and lupus erythematosus. Chloroquine is ... [... more]
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Avloclor
Avloclor tablets contain the active ingredient chloroquine phosphate, which is an antimalarial medicine, though it also has other uses, for example, in treating the autoimmune diseases rheumatoid arthritis and lupus erythematosus. Chloroquine is ... [... more]
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Mary J. Shomon
Thyroid disease sufferer Mary J Shomon is the author of The Thyroid Diet, Living Well with Hypothyroidism, Living Well with Autoimmune Disease, Living Well with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia, and Living Well with Graves' Disease and ... [... more]
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Harris Coulter
Coulter considers the relationship of vaccination to autism, hyperactivity, allergies, autoimmune diseases, and learning disabilities. He carries his argument into the social realm, suggesting a connection between neurological damage and the ... [... more]
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Donna Talman
Donna Hamil Talman is a psychotherapist with an interest in the mind/body connection that predated her diagnosis with lupus erythematosus, an auto-immune disease which affects many more women than men. Her desire to find a greater meaning in her ... [... more]
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Does it run in families?
This is the most common type of inflammatory arthritis, affecting about one in 100 people. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease in which the body's defence mechanisms go into action when there's no threat. In this case, the immune system ... [... more]
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Rheumatoid arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease in which inflammation causes the destruction of joints around the body. In rheumatoid arthritis the affected joints are stiff (particularly in the morning), painful, tender and swollen. Usually more ... [... more]
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Scleroderma
Scleroderma - from the Greek words for 'hard' and 'skin' - is an autoimmune disease that targets the connective tissue found in the skin, muscles and organs. The immune system that should protect the body attacks it instead In autoimmune ... [... more]
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Arava (leflunomide)
Arava tablets contain the active ingredient leflunomide, which is a type of medicine called a disease-modifiying antirheumatic drug (DMARD). It is mainly used to treat rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis is known as an autoimmune disease. ... [... more]
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