Southern California spent the summer behaving like it had a personal vendetta against my autonomic nervous system. I don’t know what kind of identity crisis the atmosphere has been going through — El Niño, La Niña, or La Dramática. But the heat, humidity, and daily barometric pressure swings have turned…
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When starting treatment for IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD), having measurements of certain immune cell levels may help doctors predict the risk of future disease flares in those with the rare condition, a new study from Japan suggests. The researchers found that high blood levels of two types of immune cells…
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My first symptoms of immunoglobulin G4-related disease (IgG4-RD) appeared around 1990 as intermittent eyelid swelling. At the time, I assumed it was an allergy, because the symptoms began the same day my boyfriend and I brought home a rescued cat. Initially, the swelling happened for about two weeks every…
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