A compound found in green tea appears to reduce the inflammatory responses associated with autoimmune diseases, say researchers from the Medical College of Georgia in the journalAutoimmunity. The researchers have been working with animals modeling primary Sjogren’s syndrome (also known as dry mouth), which damages the glands that produce tears and saliva. While around 30 […]
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Healing’s Golden Touch Explained
For more than 75 years, gold and platinum have been used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases. How, and why, gold should work in this fashion has remained something of a mystery to medical scientists, but now some canny Harvard Medical School researchers believe that they have pulled back the curtain to reveal […]