Vitamin D is important to our overall health, and now scientists have made some notable discoveries about how deficiency early in life can trigger problems with the body's immune system. Researchers ...

A certain vitamin deficiency could trigger autoimmune conditions. Researchers at McGill University in Canada studied mice genetically engineered to not produce vitamin d naturally. They found the ...

Deficiency of vitamin D has been linked to issues in bone health, but recent studies are revealing a more complex relationship between this nutrient and the immune system. Emerging evidence suggests ...

People mounting an immune attack on interleukin-23 (IL-23) were prone to severe opportunistic infections rarely seen in the clinic, a study found. After investigations showed that anti-IL-23 ...

Primary immunodeficiency (PI) not only increases your risk of frequent and serious infections, but can also make you more likely to develop autoimmune diseases — conditions where the immune system ...

Autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 1 (APS-1) is a life-threatening, autosomal recessive syndrome caused by autoimmune regulator (AIRE) deficiency. In APS-1, self-reactive T cells escape thymic ...

Researchers at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research have uncovered a critical mechanism driving inflammation in ...

Specific antibody deficiency (SAD) is an immune system disorder. It occurs when you have normal levels of antibodies but an insufficient immune response to certain types of bacteria. Antibodies, also ...

Immunoglobulin A (IgA) deficiency is the most common primary immunodeficiency in humans. It can increase the risk of allergies, asthma, and autoimmune disease. Primary immunodeficiencies are ...