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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Itching, and the subsequent urge to scratch, can make eczema worse. Kinga Krzeminska/Moment via Getty Images Itching can be ...

Ahead of World Lupus Day on May 10, new research from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and UNSW Sydney helps explain ...