patient stories

Voices of Autoimmune Patients

Autoimmune diseases are invisible: they often don’t present externally and seemingly slip through the grasp of doctors’ diagnoses. These are glimpses of the stories and voices of autoimmune patients from our Stanford MedicineX Workshop Survey that highlight the long and arduous struggles many autoimmune patients face with diagnosis.

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Decoding Autoimmunity

By Bonnie Feldman, Ellen M Martin, and Tiffany Simms What Do We Mean by the Autoimmune Abyss? More than 50M patients in the US are living with 100+ different kinds of autoimmune diseases. In “The Lonely Voices of Autoimmune Disease” young adults talk about the challenges of living with chronic

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Tai Chi & Qi Gong as Movement Therapy

Over the past several generations, stress levels and chronic disease levels have continued to rise. According to the American Psychology Association, on average, younger adults are more likely than older generations to report that their stress has increased in the past year. 47% of all Americans say they are concerned with

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The Future of Autoimmunity

What’s in store for autoimmunity? How close are we to bridging the autoimmune abyss? What happens now? Take a look at our New Year series recapping and moving forward in autoimmune disease on Tincture – Medium The State of Autoimmunity 2016 – A Progress Report The state of autoimmune disease research and

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