Women and Autoimmune Disease

From an internationally recognized MD, a “clearly-written” book on autoimmune disease “should be extremely useful to people with these difficult ailments” ( Publishers Weekly ). Autoimmune diseases—including chronic fatigue syndrome, vasculitis, juvenile diabetes, alopecia, Graves’ disease, Sjogren’s syndrome, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis—are among the most devastating conditions afflicting women today and the most resistant to diagnosis and treatment. In all of them, the