Lupus News
May 14, 2024
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May 13, 2024 Researchers say they have uncovered insights as to why lupus symptoms and severity present differently in individuals with the autoimmune condition, which affects up to 1.5 million Americans. The ...
Feb. 6, 2024 Researchers have worked out how to fix a defect that causes lupus, and hope their discovery will offer effective long-term ...
Nov. 13, 2023 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 ...
Nov. 8, 2023 New research may lead to new targeted treatments for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), an autoimmune disease that causes joint inflammation and ...
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Feb. 8, 2024 Researchers have discovered a previously unknown ability of a group of immune system cells, known as Atypical B cells (ABCs), to fight infectious diseases such as malaria. The scientists say ABCs ...
Jan. 14, 2024 Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease, in which the immune system that normally protects the body from invading microbes turns ...
Dec. 5, 2023 In some diseases, the underlying processes can start years before a diagnosis is made. A new study finds that people who later develop multiple ...
June 27, 2023 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 ...
Mar. 8, 2023 Scientists have made an important breakthrough in understanding what goes wrong in our bodies during the progression of inflammatory diseases and -- ...
Jan. 26, 2023 Scientists have discovered the role of microRNA on inflammation in lupus disease. They identified the microRNAs that are downregulated in the disease and how they converge to cause the ...
Nov. 23, 2022 Investigators have reported highly promising early results for CAR T therapy in a small set of patients with the autoimmune disease ...
Nov. 3, 2022 Some genetic variants may put people at risk of autoimmune diseases while conferring protection against the outcome of viral infection. A new study suggests that genetic predisposition for systemic ...
Aug. 28, 2022 An international research team presents the outcome of a thorough epidemiological investigation into possible links between nineteen of the most common autoimmune disorders and cardiovascular ...
Apr. 27, 2022 An international team of researchers has identified DNA mutations in a gene that senses viral RNA, as a cause of the autoimmune disease lupus, with the finding paving the way for the development of ...
Earlier Headlines
Feb. 1, 2023 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 ...
Jan. 13, 2023 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 ...
Sep. 8, 2022 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 ...
July 14, 2022 A new study finds that technology through video game-based cognitive therapy improves attention and executive functioning in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus ...
July 13, 2022 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 ...
July 11, 2022 A novel molecular pathway involving cell signalling proteins in the brain may explain how stress affects neuropsychiatric lupus with diffuse neuropsychological ...
June 2, 2022 A national expert in systemic lupus erythematosus, or lupus, has identified biomarkers for heart disease and for children with lupus ...
May 3, 2022 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 ...
Mar. 22, 2022 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 ...
Feb. 9, 2022 An expert in autoimmune diseases and systemic lupus erythematosus has identified potential biomarkers for neuropsychiatric symptoms of lupus after conducting a large-scale protein ...
Dec. 8, 2021 Lupus, an autoimmune disease, and macular degeneration, a leading cause of vision loss, share a common contributor to harmful inflammation, researchers ...
Oct. 15, 2021 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 ...
Sep. 27, 2021 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 ...
Sep. 17, 2021 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 ...
Aug. 16, 2021 A potential biomarker predicting severity of heart disease in African American lupus patients was identified in a study conducted by a team of ...
Aug. 12, 2021 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 ...