Two years ago, 14-year-old Wyatt Bilbrey of Seymour was diagnosed with juvenile dermatomyositis. This rare and ...

Juvenile dermatomyositis, a rare but often severe and chronic systemic autoimmune disease, includes a large number of patients who are treatment resistant, requiring long term immunosuppressive ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . ATLANTA — Patients with juvenile dermatomyositis demonstrate obvious mitochondrial abnormalities in the tissue ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Juvenile dermatomyositis challenges rheumatologists to accurately assess not only the skin but also pulmonary ...

Sunlight, the first noninfectious environmental factor identified in juvenile myositis, alters autoantibody expression and may shift the disease phenotype from muscle only (myositis) to involvement of ...

Children with a rare, debilitating muscle disease could benefit from the findings of new research by experts at UCL and Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). For the study, published in Annals ...

Encinitas parents Shari and Tom Hume have a lot to be thankful for this holiday season. Although diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, their son, Parker, is an otherwise happy and healthy high school ...

Children with a rare, debilitating muscle disease could benefit from the findings of new research by experts at UCL and Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). For the study, published in Annals of the ...

LONDON — For patients with juvenile dermatomyositis, a rare autoimmune disease that affects children, anti–tumor necrosis factor (TNF) agents appear to be an exciting new treatment option, results ...

Hacettepe University Medical School, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Ankara 06100, Turkey Correspondence to: Dr Özcakar Hacettepe Univesity Medical School, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, ...

Long-term follow-up into adulthood among patients diagnosed with juvenile myositis showed generally favorable outcomes, researchers said, despite finding that almost all had developed disease-related ...