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Healthbeat Report: Autoimmune Diseases
ABC7Chicago.com
That can leave a patient with symptoms of chronic diarrhea, fatigue, iron deficiency, anemia or mental fog. Researchers at the University of Chicago Celiac Disease Center say there's no doubt this disorder is on the rise.

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Pushing past limits
Ithaca College The Ithacan
Walker has Crohn's disease, an inflammatory bowel condition that causes severe abdominal pain and affects the intestines. Usually the body's immune system can tell the difference between normal tissue and foreign substances, but with Crohn's it can't, ...


Day Six: Is Obesity an Infectious Disease?
Huffington Post
"When healthy mice were co-housed with mice that had altered gut microbes, the healthy mice also developed a susceptibility for development of liver disease and obesity." It is estimated that 30 million people suffer from NAFLD in the US The condition ...

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Deseret News

Long recovery begins for 2 Highland girls with rare disease
Deseret News
The sisters inherited a rare variant of a disease where their immune system partially developed at birth but then started attacking itself. The condition is called Leaky SCID. SCID is an acronym for Severe Combined Immune Deficiency.

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California Man Riding Horse Across Country, Puts Focus On Disease
Fort Smith Times Record
His trek started in Redding, Calif., in March as part of an effort to raise awareness for Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a disorder afflicting his mother. GBS is an immune deficiency that attacks a person's peripheral nerves, often causing paralysis.

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Couple Makes Multi-Million Dollar Commitment to Screen Every Newborn Baby for ...
MarketWatch (press release)
1, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Frustrated with the slow pace of implementation of newborn screening for Severe Combined Immune Deficiency (SCID), Vicki and Fred Modell decided to coordinate and fund the effort themselves.

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