MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'autoimmunity'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:17:15 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3957917&cid=t_102101_87_f&fid=39261&url=http%3A%2F%2Fvactruth.com%2F2010%2F09%2F10%2Fthe-possible-role-of-vaccines-in-causing-retrogressive-changes%2F Harold E. Buttram, MD 09/10/2010 Vactruth.com The Possible Role of Vaccines in Causing Retrogressive Changes: Reminiscences of America’s Children in the 1930s, and the Profound Changes That Have Taken Place Since Then. Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines Meeting Vaccine Safety Advocate Harold E Buttram, MD, Presentation September 2, 2010, FDA, Rockville, MD As one of America’s senior citizens who grew up in a Midwestern state in the 1930s, and as a doctor who treated many children with autistic spectrum and related disorders in the later years of my practice, I may have a special vantage point of time and experience in regard to the changes that have taken place in the health of America’s children since the relatively innocent times of the 1930s. At a summer camp in the New Mex... vactruth.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3957917 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:26:20 +0100 3957917 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3946466&cid=t_102101_87_f&fid=39261&url=http%3A%2F%2Fvactruth.com%2F2010%2F09%2F07%2Fvaccine-meeting-at-fda%2F Catherine Frompovich 09/07/2010 Vactruth.com Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. ….William James, American Philosopher & Psychologist (1842-1910) Why in the world would I open a report about a vaccine meeting at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in Rockville, Maryland, with such a quote? My answer is quite simple: Both sides of the vaccine injury issue need to interact intelligently because, as one member at that meeting said privately, “We’re both on the same page only at different paragraphs.” That remark has resounded in my consciousness numerous times since I heard it at the Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines Meeting September 2 ... vactruth.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3946466 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:18:30 +0100 3946466 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3946463&cid=t_102101_87_f&fid=39260&url=http%3A%2F%2Fvaccineblogs.com%2Fblog-autoimmune-recipe%2F     “No mechanisms have been advanced to explain how vaccines could account for all of the prerequisites needed for the development of autoimmune disease.” Offit, P. A., Hackett, C. (2004). Vaccine 4th ed. Multiple Vaccines and the Immune System. pp. 1586.   Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2010 Jeffry John Aufderheide (Source: Vaccine Blogs) Vaccine Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3946463 Sun, 05 Sep 2010 04:51:47 +0100 3946463 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3538408&cid=t_102101_167_f&fid=38576&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.drbriffa.com%2Fblog%2F2010%2F05%2F05%2Fsunlights-ability-to-protect-against-multiple-sclerosis-may-go-beyond-vitamin-d%2F Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurological disorder. At its root, is degeneration of the fatty sheaths that surround the nerve fibres in the brain and spinal column. The degeneration of these sheaths (known as myelin sheaths) disrupt neurological function, and can manifest in any number of ways including physical disability and impaired brain function. It’s [...] (Source: Dr John Biffa's Blog) Dr John Biffa's Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3538408 Wed, 05 May 2010 22:46:00 +0100 3538408 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3044947&cid=t_102101_134_f&fid=34841&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.diabetesmine.com%2F2009%2F12%2Fdiabetes-around-the-world.html Living in the United States, we are often stuck in a bubble of US-centric news.  This is true for diabetes as much as any other topic. But as World Diabetes Day attests to, diabetes is hardly just an American thing. In reality, there’s much more going on in the global diabetes research arena than you [...] (Source: Diabetes Mine) Diabetes Mine blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3044947 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:00:00 +0100 3044947 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2796693&cid=t_102101_134_f&fid=34841&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.diabetesmine.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fanother-diagnosis-in-the-family-lyme-disease.html Up until now it’s been all about me and my #$%@ chronic illness. That wasn’t so bad, for me. Far tougher is the realization that someone you love — someone who’s been the rock of your existence — may not be so invincible after all. Although nothing truly catastrophic has happened, a little [...] (Source: Diabetes Mine) Diabetes Mine blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2796693 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:52:33 +0100 2796693 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2399107&cid=t_102101_134_f&fid=35152&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsstrumello.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F05%2Fis-adding-vitamin-d-to-our-foods.html An inflammatory immune response - one of the body's primary means to protect against infection-defines multiple established infectious causes of chronic diseases, including some cancers. Inflammation also drives many chronic conditions that are still classified as (noninfectious) autoimmune or immune-mediated.Both [the innate and adaptive immune systems] play critical roles in the pathogenesis of these inflammatory syndromes. Therefore, inflammation is a clear potential link between infectious agents and chronic diseases.Bacteria are a logical cause of inflammation.Dr. David RelmanStanford UniversityThe current issue of Time magazine features an article entitled "The Vitamin-D Debate" by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, columnist and CNN correspondent (as well as considered by President Obama as U.S. Sur... Scott's Web Log blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2399107 Sat, 09 May 2009 02:00:00 +0100 2399107 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2368008&cid=t_102101_134_f&fid=35152&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsstrumello.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F04%2Fimmune-system-pioneers-share-americas.html I have to admit, I've been quiet on the blogging front even since explaining why the first few months of this year, I was effectively unable to do much d-blogging (I was in the process of moving). To some extent, my decision to be quiet on the blogging front since then has been driven by the fact that #1) my goal has always been to raise awareness of issues that others weren't aware of or communicating and #2) with the advent of social media sites like TuDiabetes and the proliferation of diabetes bloggers (referred to herein as d-bloggers). When I began blogging in the Fall of 2005, there were only a handful of us out there, including Scott Johnson, Amy Tenderich, Kerri Morrone-Sparling, Allison Blass, Allie Beatty, Gina Capone, Bernard Farrell and a few others. Today, there are hundreds o... Scott's Web Log blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2368008 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2368008 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1497525&cid=t_102101_134_f&fid=35152&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsstrumello.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F06%2Fon-wednesday-the-nihs-national.html On Wednesday, the the NIH's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) issued a press release saying that long-term pesticide exposure may increase risk of diabetes. (Gee, you think maybe?) The press release did not elaborate into whether this exposure increases the likelihood of autoimmune type 1 or insulin resistance, which is better known as type 2 diabetes, but it seems very likely that some of these influences very likely contribute to the rising incidence of both types, as well as a host of other ailments. In fact, I have seen recent research suggesting that autism which has not historically been considered a disease might actually be attributed to autoimmunity.The NIH looked at the incidence associated with some particular pes... Scott's Web Log blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1497525 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:05:00 +0100 1497525 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1340872&cid=t_102101_132_f&fid=35624&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsuicyte.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F04%2F01%2Fapril-the-protein%2F Reading an interesting post on the tree of life reminded me that today is April 1st. I will seize this opportunity to make you familiar an interesting protein, which has been discovered in - you might have guessed it - April, exactly 10 years ago. In reality, the name APRIL has nothing to do with the month but rather means “A PRoliferation Inducing Ligand”. You can look it up somewhere in JEM. APRIL is a member of the TNF family, which also contains proteins such as TRAIL and Fas-ligand. Unlike many other TNF family proteins, APRIL does not induced apoptosis, quite to the contrary: By a mechanism that is still very incompletey understood, APRIL upregulates the anti-apoptotic members of the Bcl2 family, most likely by way of NF-kB. Initially, we thought that APRIL had a connecti... Suicyte Notes blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1340872 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:25:47 +0100 1340872 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1152569&cid=t_102101_134_f&fid=35152&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsstrumello.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F01%2Frethinking-dark-ages-of-treatment-for.html When I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes as a 7 year-old kid on July 24, 1976, not much had really changed since the discovery of insulin. I began this trip using Clinitest urine testing and that lasted for over a decade. I made slight adjustments to my short-acting insulin if my test results were on the high-end of the scale. Blood glucose monitors were introduced in the mid-1980's, and I recall my family was one of the first to get a meter (since there were two of us who had it, I guess the price was justified); but the other kids I knew used color-coded strips and they told stories of how they could slice the strips in half and double the number of tests they got from a single vial. I remember thinking that was pretty cool.When I was quite young, I did experience some problems with noc... Scott's Web Log blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1152569 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:25:00 +0100 1152569 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=478743&cid=t_102101_87_f&fid=34867&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thediabetesblog.com%2F2007%2F03%2F14%2Fjoin-us-dr-p-and-the-diabetes-community%2F Filed under: Type 1, Childhood, Lifestyle, Research, Services, SupportChat live with Dr. Pugliese, an expert on the immunology and genetics of diabetes at The Diabetes Research Institute. His work has been focused on preventing the autoimmune attack that leads to diabetes. This research is very important for future prevention strategies, as well as stopping autoimmune destruction of transplanted islets. Dr. Pugliese's has studied the role of the thymus gland in the immune system and he describes it as the "school for the immune system". All immune cells are forced to pass through the thymus gland where they are exposed to the antigens present throughout the body. Immune cells that bind to these normal antigens are destroyed, thereby preventing the later destruction of healthy cells. If no... The Diabetes Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=478743 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 04:00:00 +0100 478743