Immune System Disorders

Your body releases a hormone called cortisol from your adrenal glands in response to stress. Cortisol's purpose is to keep you alive in the event of an emergency. It causes your blood sugar to...

Sjogren's syndrome is a disease that affects your immune system and causes fluid-creating ducts to swell and close. The most common glands affected are saliva glands and tear ducts. To diagnose...

Sjogren's syndrome is an inflammatory autoimmune disease in which white blood cells attack and ravage the body's moisture-producing glands. There are two types of Sjogren's syndrome--primary...

Sjogren's syndrome is an autoimmune condition, which means that the immune system develops an anomaly in which immune cells attack the body's own natural cells. It generally occurs in women in...

Cystic Fibrosis, commonly known as CF, is an inherited condition of the endocrine system that prevents the body's glands from producing normal secretions. It affects multiple body organs,...

Our immune system has the important role of being our defense against illness, inflammation and injuries. Yet in many autoimmune diseases, the immune system begins to attack the body causing chaos...