Women and Autoimmune Disease: The Mysterious Ways Your Body Betrays Itself - Hardcover

Lahita, Robert G.; Yalof, Ina L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 006008149X ISBN 13: 9780060081492

Publisher: Regan Books, 2004

Synopsis

A ground-breaking study of autoimmune diseases--including chronic fatigue syndrome, diabetes, lupus, and multiple sclerosis--draws on the latest research into these frequently misdiagnosed and controversial ailments to shed new light on these conditions, how they affect women, and how to best treat them. 20,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert G. Lahita, M.D., Ph.D., is a professor of medicine at the Mount Sinai Medical School and chairman of medicine and vice president of the Jersey City Medical Center. He was the chairman of the conference committee of the New York Academy of Sciences and has been elected a fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Rheumatology, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Royal College of Physicians in London. The Textbook of Autoimmunity, which he edited, is the seminal work on the subject for medical professionals, and he is also the editor of the recently published fourth edition of the standard textbook Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. He has appeared on Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, Today, and Regis & Kelly. Named one of New York magazine's Best Doctors in New York for the last five consecutive years, he lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey, with his family.

About this edition

• Publisher: Regan Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 006008149X
• ISBN 13: 9780060081492
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288