autoimmune disease

What is alopecia? Will Smith jumped onstage at the Oscars to slap Chris Rock after the comedian made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head, despite the fact she has the disease.

Alopecia is a disease where the body attacks its own hair follicles.

On Thursday, one of the siblings from “Property Brothers” posted an emotional video on Instagram detailing his year-long battle with a mysterious illness that is still undiagnosed. In a video spanning over 25 minutes, Scott, 43, and his fiancé Annalee Belle discussed the details of the health complications he has been experiencing for the past 14 months.

Keary Cheney began feeling sick while she and her husband Justin were in Uganda to adopt their two children Zola and Oliver. A month later she slipped into a coma. Doctors diagnosed her with Type 1 Diabetes, an autoimmune disease that prevents the pancreas from producing insulin. As she recovered, and as Oliver and Zola settled in, came another diagnosis….

Ten years after her son’s death, a mother is concerned with how the opioid epidemic is being fought and discussed. She says it’s not the pills per se causing problems, but how those with mental illness and addiction are treated.

A New Jersey man who lost his wife to kidney failure is now preparing to donate his kidney to another woman thanks to an ad that was posted in the wrong section of Craigslist.

NBC4 Reporter Kathy Vara will emcee the Alliance for Lupus Research Walk with Us to Cure Lupus Walk & Rock Twilight Stroll on June 12 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.