Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN DIEGO — Many patients who might have previously been diagnosed with polymyositis are now being treated for ...

Inclusion body myositis is a type of myositis, or muscle inflammation. Inclusion body myositis mainly affects males, but females can get it too. It’s also known as inflammatory myopathy or sporadic ...

Belonging to the same group of autoimmune diseases, both dermatomyositis and polymyositis cause muscle inflammation and weakness. But dermatomyositis also affects your skin and is more likely to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Recent findings regarding interferon and Janus kinase inhibition may hold clues to improving outcomes in ...

Treatment for autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), idiopathic inflammatory myositis, and systemic sclerosis often involves long-term immune suppression. Resetting aberrant ...

Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIMs) comprise a group of inflammatory disorders in which there is chronic inflammation of skeletal muscle. This is then followed by muscle weakness. One type of ...

The researchers developed a predictive model that "allowed us to assess the risk of RPILD in patients even when the anti-MDA5 antibody was negative, which could be useful in clinical practice to ...