Any effective "vaccine" would be a significant breakthrough in auto-immune diseases such as MS and rheumatoid arthritis.

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The victory put Williams into the second round as she continues her recovery from Sjogren syndrome, an auto-immune disorder.

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Venus, who last won the U.S. tournament in 2004, is continuing her recovery from Sjogren syndrome, an auto-immune disorder.

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HGS' best shot at a breakthrough is a new drug that targets lupus, the auto-immune disease that afflicts half a million Americans.

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Auto-immune diseases are caused when the immune system, for some reason, decides that a certain type of the body's own cells are foreign and starts attacking them.

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Gluten-free bread, cake mixes and bourbon biscuits are also available to people with coeliac disease, an auto-immune disease, which is triggered by eating gluten, which is found in wheat, barley and rye.

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In December, on the advice of a panel of independent experts, a judge in Oregon excluded from a trial all expert testimony linking impants to auto-immune disorders, on the ground that it was scientifically dodgy.

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And when I posted the rules online, I started to hear from people all over the world playing the game for things like depression, quitting smoking, finding a job, knee surgery, asthma, diabetes, chemotherapy, auto-immune disease, chronic pain.

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