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People with autoimmune illnesses often struggle for years to get a diagnosis and to find doctors who take their symptoms seriously

Therapies are improving and researchers are gaining understanding into the genetic, environmental and perhaps epigenetic factors that trigger the diseases

Doctor after doctor misdiagnosed or shrugged off Ruth Wilson’s rashes, swelling, fevers and severe pain for six years. She saved her life by begging for one more test in an emergency room about to send her home, again, without answers.

That last-ditch test found the Massachusetts woman’s kidneys were failing. The culprit? Her immune system had been attacking her own body all that time and nobody caug

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