The Immune Mystery: A Doctor's Impassioned Quest to Solve the Puzzle of Autoimmune Disease

• According to the National Institutes of Health, 23.5 million Americans suffer from autoimmune diseases (more than seven percent of the population)

• Published to coincide with World Autoimmune Arthritis Day (May 20)

Immune Mystery • is both a window into autoimmunity and a deeply moving memoir of Dr. Anita Kåss’s personal connection to autoimmune diseases and her quest to help fight them.

• Kåss is a rheumatologist and researcher who received widespread media attention when her research into a potential cure for arthritis resulted in a record-breaking licensing agreement with a Japanese pharmaceutical company.

• Kåss uses clear language to explain autoimmunity, the immune system, and what happens when autoimmune diseases strike.

• Kåss is and engaging speaker https://youtu.be/D21nTIUWWKA

• Offers insight into not only the science behind autoimmune diseases but the history of medical research, and the promise for a better future for those suffering.

• Will appeal to readers of medical memoirs like

When Breath Becomes Air • and

Brain on Fire, • as well as people intrigued by medical mysteries, including readers of Lisa Sanders NYT column, Diagnosis.