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The idea that psychological stress can make us -- or at least rats -- more vulnerable to illness was inadvertently proven by an eager yet clumsy physiologist back in the 1930s. Hans Selye, an Austrian-born endocrinologist working in Canada, was trying to prove that he'd discovered a new hormone by injecting lab rats daily with an ovarian extract. As the story goes, Selye was an inexperienced techn...

You owe your life to your immune system. Without all of those antibodies and white blood cells and other warriors working in your defense, your body would soon be overridden with infections and cancers. But there's another side to the immune system. Like an army that suddenly turns against itself, the cells of the immune system can start attacking the body, resulting in an autoimmune disease. Mill...

What is lupus? Lupusmore technically known as lupus erythematosusis a systemic autoimmune disease. In other words, it's a disease that happens when a person's immune system starts a misguided attack through the body. It affects roughly 1.5 million Americans, mostly younger women. It strikes about nine times more women than men, and about 80 percent of these women are between the ages of 15 and 4...