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Arthritis is an illness that can cause pain and swelling in joints. Over time, the joint can become severely damaged. Joints are places where two bones meet, such as elbow or knee. Some kinds of arthritis can cause problems in other organs, such as your eyes, or in your chest. It can affect your skin, too. These problems may be caused by inflammation (in-flah-MAY-shun), a swelling that can include pain or redness. They are telling you that something is wrong. There are several kinds of a... 
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When your body is attacked--perhaps by a virus or germs on a nail you stepped on--your immune system defends you. It sees and kills the germs that might hurt you. But when the system doesn't work right, this process can cause harm. Immune cells can mistake your body's own cells as invaders and attack them. This "friendly fire" can affect almost any part of the body. It can sometimes affect many parts of the body at once. This is called autoimmunity (meaning self-immunity).
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Arthritis as related to Autoimmune Diseases
- Autoimmune Diseases - What Are Autoimmune Diseases?
Autoimmune diseases are disorders in which the body's tissues are attacked by its own immune system. There are many autoimmune diseases including lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, etc.
- Autoimmune Diseases Research - Autoimmune Disease Clinical Trials
Information on the research and clinical trials related to the autoimmune diseases. In the various autoimmune diseases, disorders and conditions, the body's immune system attacks ...
- Examples of Autoimmune Diseases Including Rheumatoid Arthritis ...
Examples of Autoimmune Diseases Including Rheumatoid Arthritis, Multiple Sclerosis, Lupus, and Autoimmune Thyroid Diseases Including Hashimoto's and Graves' Disease
- MedlinePlus: Autoimmune Diseases
Autoimmune Diseases ... National Institutes of Health. The primary NIH organization for research on Autoimmune Diseases is the National Institute of Arthritis and ...
- Autoimmune Diseases, Risk Factors, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Seattle ...
About Autoimmune Diseases. An autoimmune disease develops when the body's immune system fails to recognize normal body tissues and attacks and destroys them as if they were foreign ...
- Autoimmune Diseases and Rheumatoid Arthritis
F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG CH-4070 Basel Corporate Communications Tel. 061 - 688 88 88 Fax 061 - 688 27 75 http://www.roche.com Backgrounder Basel, 6 November 2006 Autoimmune Diseases ...
- Autoimmune Diseases
Some examples of autoimmune diseases include lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis, but there are many others. In some cases, the specific tissue or protein targeted ...
- Arthritis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Other arthritis forms are rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis , autoimmune diseases in which the body attacks itself. Septic arthritis is caused by joint infection . Gouty ...
- ProMetic Life Sciences Inc.
Perhaps the most well known of these is arthritis. Most autoimmune diseases are debilitating, often progressive with time and eventually fatal.
- Autoimmune Diseases
Learn about autoimmune diseases and how they effect your body. ... The links on this page will direct you to information on autoimmune diseases of many different types.
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