Tag: autoimmune disease

Rheumatoid arthritis(RA) is a chronic polyarticular inflammatory disease which leads to swelling of the joints, deformity and loss of joint function. RA occurs in 1 to 3 percent of the adult population, with significantly more women than men affected. The body’s immune system attacks its own tissue, including joints,...

Christina Rossetti (1830-1894), a Victorian poet, was always plagued by poor health, and her mid-life episode of life-threatening illness (1870-1872) when she suffered from Graves’ illness provides an illuminating case study of the ways in which poetry and prose can represent illness. Rossetti, her relatives, and her doctors understood...

Psoriasis is an inflammatory chronic disease affecting both genders, approximately 2-3% of the world population. Although there are different clinical forms of psoriasis, the most common type is Psoriasis vulgaris. It presents skin patches typically red, itchy and scaly with different levels of severity and extension, established clinically by...