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Marsha F. Goldsmith

JAMA. 2001;285:1433-1434.

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San Francisco—Patients with autoimmune diseases—horror autotoxicus, as immunologist Paul Ehrlich collectively called the dozens of disorders in which the human immune system attacks itself—have for the century or so in which the disorder has been recognized sought help from a variety of physicians. Women, who comprise about 75% of those affected, have consulted neurologists to treat multiple sclerosis, dermatologists for scleroderma, rheumatologists for rheumatoid arthritis, endocrinologists for thyroiditis—the list goes on through some 80 or more autoimmune illnesses.

Now, some researchers are saying it's time for a new specialty: autoimmunology.

Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Noel R. Rose, MD, PhD, said, "It is important, from the clinical point of view, to consider the autoimmune diseases as a united group of disorders. The presence of one autoimmune disease will alert the physician and the patient to the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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