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Immune System and Disorders
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Latest News
- Latest News
- New Treatment Studied for Melanoma (05/27/2005, United Press International)
- Silencing Gene Stops Rheumatoid Arthritis (05/18/2005, United Press International)
From the National Institutes of Health
- From the National Institutes of Health
- Primary Immune Deficiency (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
- When the Body's Defenses Are Missing: Primary Immunodeficiency (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)
Overviews
- Overviews
- IDF Patient/Family Handbook for Primary Immune Deficiency Diseases (Immune Deficiency Foundation) - Links to PDF
Also available in: Spanish - National Primary Immunodeficiency Interactive FAQs (Jeffrey Modell Foundation)
Diagnosis/Symptoms
- Diagnosis/Symptoms
- 10 Warning Signs of Primary Immunodeficiency (Jeffrey Modell Foundation)
Also available in: Spanish - 4 Stages of Immunologic Testing When Primary Immunodeficiency Is Suspected (Jeffrey Modell Foundation)
- Tips to Remember: Recurrent or Unusually Severe Infections (American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology)
Also available in: Spanish
Treatment
- Treatment
- How to Keep an Infusion Log: Intravenous Immune Globulin (IVIG) (Immune Deficiency Foundation) - Links to PDF
- Methotrexate (American Academy of Family Physicians)
Prevention/Screening
- Prevention/Screening
- General information Regarding HIV and Travel: Health Information for International Travel, 2003-2004 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Immunizations for the Immune-Impaired (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
Specific Conditions
- Specific Conditions
- Antiphospholipid-Antibody Syndrome (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
Clinical Trials
- Clinical Trials
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Granulomatous Disease, Chronic (National Institutes of Health)
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Immunologic Diseases (National Institutes of Health)
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (National Institutes of Health)
Genetics
- Genetics
- Genetics Home Reference: 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (National Library of Medicine)
- Genetics Home Reference: X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency (National Library of Medicine)
- Genes and Disease: DiGeorge Syndrome (National Center for Biotechnology Information)
- Genes and Disease: Diseases of the Immune System (National Center for Biotechnology Information)
- Genes and Disease: Immunodeficiency with Hyper-IgM (National Center for Biotechnology Information)
- Genes and Disease: Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) (National Center for Biotechnology Information)
- Research Brief: A Protein to Tie Up Loose Ends (National Institute of General Medical Sciences)
Research
- Research
- Antifungal Drug Helps Kids with Immune Disorder Avoid Hospitalization (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
- Cocaine May Compromise Immune System, Increase Risk of Infection (National Institute on Drug Abuse)
- NIAID Initiative Addresses Primary Immune Deficiency Diseases (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
- Powerful Technologies Probe Innate Immunity (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
- Rapid, New Test Developed for Inherited Immune Deficiency (National Human Genome Research Institute)
Anatomy/Physiology
- Anatomy/Physiology
- Immune System (Nemours Foundation)
- Immune System (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
- Understanding the Immune System: How It Works (National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) - Large PDF file
Dictionaries/Glossaries
- Dictionaries/Glossaries
- IDF Patient/Family Handbook: Glossary (Immune Deficiency Foundation) - Links to PDF
Organizations
- Organizations
- American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology
- Immune Deficiency Foundation
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Children
- Children
- Repeated Infections in Children (American Academy of Family Physicians)
Also available in: Spanish - Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (Bubble Boy Disease) (Nemours Foundation)
- What Is a Pediatric Allergist / Immunologist? (American Academy of Pediatrics) - Links to PDF
Women
- Women
- Fetal Immunity? Why the Mother's Immune System Doesn't Reject the Fetus (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)