Vitiligo Treatment
Interesting article I found on autoimmune diseases, of which Vitiligo is one. This came from a conference on these types of diseases, which seem to be on the rise.
Rose said they needed to develop effective treatments, that would treat the cause of the disease and not the symptoms because the symptoms were at the end of the train of events. “We need to get on the train at the very beginning,” he added. He pointed out that the top ten autoimmune diseases in the US included Graves disease, rheumatoid arthritis, Hashimoto thyroiditis, vitiligo and pernicious anaemia. “In the US, 14.7 to 23.5 million people have autoimmune disease and its prevalence is the same as heart diseass (22 million) and twice as cancer (nine million).”
Click below to read more:
http://www.guardian.co.tt/news/2011/10/04/autoimmune-diseases-growing-problem-says-expert
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