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Lupus News

March 18, 2024

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Researchers have worked out how to fix a defect that causes lupus, and hope their discovery will offer effective long-term ...
For years, researchers and clinicians have known that lupus, an autoimmune condition, occurs in women at a rate nine times higher than in men. Some of the factors that cause the disease's high ...
New research may lead to new targeted treatments for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), an autoimmune disease that causes joint inflammation and ...
Recurrent bouts of systemic lupus erythematosus, marked by the body's immune system attack of its own tissues, closely tracked with measureable upticks in growth in the gut of a certain species of ...

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A pair of researchers reports the success of their new, at-home method for early diagnosis and monitoring of lupus nephritis. or inflammation of the kidneys, one of the most severe complications for ...

Targeting iron metabolism in immune system cells may offer a new approach for treating systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) -- the most common form of the chronic autoimmune disease lupus. A ...

A team of engineers and doctors has designed a unique 3D-printed light-sensing medical device that could help millions of people worldwide with lupus and other light-sensitive ...

A new study finds that technology through video game-based cognitive therapy improves attention and executive functioning in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus ...

People with systemic lupus erythematosus, or SLE, who received a 'booster' dose of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine after full vaccination are roughly half as likely to have a subsequent ...

A novel molecular pathway involving cell signalling proteins in the brain may explain how stress affects neuropsychiatric lupus with diffuse neuropsychological ...

A national expert in systemic lupus erythematosus, or lupus, has identified biomarkers for heart disease and for children with lupus ...

A new study finds that the normal-appearing skin of lupus patients contains the same inflammatory signals that are detected when the skin develops a rash, sometimes at even higher levels. Researchers ...

Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is rare in children and known to cause inflammation and recurring, potentially fatal, blood clots. Researchers found that two-thirds of children with the autoimmune ...

Lupus, an autoimmune disease, and macular degeneration, a leading cause of vision loss, share a common contributor to harmful inflammation, researchers ...

Researchers can find signs of whether a person is on the way to developing the disease Lupus -- or is already ill. The revolutionary technique can be an important tool for diagnosing more autoimmune ...

Complex autoimmune diseases affecting various organ systems remain one of the greatest medical challenges in spite of immense advances in treatment. In particular, the diffuse symptoms at the early ...

Researchers attempted to unravel such mechanisms by adopting non-invasive diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study the brains of SLE patients, particularly the white matter, coupled with ...

A potential biomarker predicting severity of heart disease in African American lupus patients was identified in a study conducted by a team of ...

The autoimmune disease lupus may be triggered by a defective process in the development of red blood cells (RBCs), according to a new study. The discovery could lead to new methods for classifying ...