Researchers find that Korean children with early life exposure to antibiotics were not diagnosed with autoimmune diseases at higher rates. The global incidence of autoimmune diseases among children ...

MOG antibody-associated disease (MOGAD) is a rare autoimmune disease of the central nervous system. The blood of patients contains antibodies against myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG), a ...

Children exposed to antibiotics in the womb or early in life don’t generally have an increased risk of developing autoimmune conditions in adolescence, according to a study of more than 6 million ...

The pregnancy analysis included 1,516,574 exposed and 1,186,516 unexposed before inverse probability of treatment weighting, and the infancy analysis included 1,925,585 exposed and 1,421,464 unexposed ...

Large-scale national data offer reassurance for families and clinicians that antibiotics used to treat infections in pregnancy or early infancy do not raise children’s autoimmune risk, though subtle ...

Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) and related demyelinating diseases, including myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease (MOGAD), represent a spectrum of autoimmune ...

Standard treatment for many autoimmune diseases includes drugs that suppress the immune system. Even when this approach works (and it doesn’t work for everyone), chronic immunosuppression puts ...

For people with multiple sclerosis (MS), a higher burden of comorbidity is associated with worse clinical outcomes, according to a study published online Sept. 18 in JAMA Neurology to coincide with ...