Autoimmune Life Blog

Managing your autoimmune disease may require quick and easy access to a bathroom, checking your blood sugar in public, finding a step-free route into a store, or knowing that safe foods will be on the menu.

In 2016, two of BRI's information technology experts Garrett Wright and Tom Skillman had a conversation that sparked a novel question: Could virtual reality (VR) headsets let scientists step inside cells and view them in greater detail than ever before? 

Veterans and military members, especially women of color, are more likely to have lupus than the general public — possibly because they’re exposed to toxic chemicals, stress and PTSD. That’s why the U.S.

Megan and Madeline Coder are twins who do everything together — like ballet and even raising sheep in their hometown, Battle Ground, Washington. But in the fall of 2014, when Megan was nine, she learned she had something that Madeline didn’t: type 1 diabetes (T1D).

My son Peter was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 2013, just a few days before his third birthday. The years since have been a trial-by-fire learning experience.

Gretchen Schoenstein has dealt with multiple autoimmune diseases — including Hashimoto’s disease and sarcoidosis — for over two decades.

To many, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) may seem like an older person’s worry. And it’s true that many people who live with RA develop it later in life. But not all.

If you live in the Pacific Northwest, chances are you’ve been counting down the months to the region’s best-kept secret: the Seattle summer. This is the prime time to get outside and experience our local parks, beaches and campsites.

BRI’s Matt Dufort, PhD, and Peter Linsley, PhD, led two new studies that could help doctors predict how quickly type 1 diabetes (T1D) will progress in some people, and match them with treatments that could slow it down. Dr.

In the late 1970s, Virginia Mason researchers had a groundbreaking idea: Use a portable pump to deliver insulin in patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D).