May is National Lupus Awareness Month, calling attention to an autoimmune disease that affects nearly 5 million individuals worldwide. Autoimmune diseases occur when the immune system attacks healthy tissue within the body. In the case of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), the immune system attacks many different types of tissue, causing inflammation and tissue damage ...
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