Painful inflammatory lesions of the skin and mucous membranes may occur in children who develop bacterial pneumonia. A research group at the University Children's Hospital Zurich has recently ...

Ocular cicatricial pemphigoid (OCP) is a rare autoimmune disease. Without proper treatment, it can damage the eyes and cause vision loss. OCP is a type of mucous membrane pemphigoid (MMP). MMP is a ...

In 1922 Stevens and Johnson 9 reported 2 cases of "a new eruptive fever associated with stomatitis and ophthalmia." They believed that the features of their cases, although previously described as a ...

This is a rare autoimmune skin disorder that occurs when your immune system starts attacking healthy epidermis cells (the top layer of your skin). Pemphigus can manifest itself as blisters and sores ...

A drug originally developed to treat alcohol dependency could offer new hope for patients living with a rare and potentially blinding autoimmune disease ...

In an article published in Mucosal Immunology, scientists show that IgA antibodies present in mucous membranes play a key role against HIV. By triggering the destruction of infected cells, which then ...

Linear IgA bullous dermatosis (LABD) is an autoimmune disease that causes blisters. People with LABD can develop blisters in the skin and the mucous membranes in their mouth, genitals, and eyelids.

There are two things I Google more than anything else. One is the age of a celebrity, like Martha Stewart. She’s 84, because ...