Lupus News
May 16, 2025
Top Headlines
May 15, 2025 — An international research team has discovered a critical protein that acts as a 'switch' regulating immune responses to ...
May 14, 2025 — Some patients with lupus who possess specific antibodies are at a higher risk of thrombotic events such as a blood clot, stroke or heart attack, a new study shows. The finding might help clinicians ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — FDA has cleared an investigational new drug (IND) application to study switchable chimeric antigen receptor T cell (sCAR-T) therapy (CLBR001 + SWI019) in patients with autoimmune conditions. Patient ...
Mar. 12, 2025 — Lupus is an autoimmune disease where the body's immune system attacks its own tissues and organs, causing inflammation and damaging organs. A new study has now shown that the natural active ingredient gluconolactone restores immune regulation, ...
Latest Headlines
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Mar. 3, 2025 — A 'chasm of misunderstanding and miscommunication' is often experienced between clinicians and patients, leading to autoimmune diseases such as lupus ...
Feb. 26, 2025 — A new study of more than 2,900 patients provides evidence that it's likely best to use as little corticosteroid medicine as possible when treating people who have lupus pericarditis, a common heart ...
Jan. 29, 2025 — Systemic lupus erythematosus commonly presents as a rash. The rashes are caused by inflammation from the immune system fighting the ...
Jan. 21, 2025 — Researchers identified a key protein as a potential therapeutic target for stopping the body's immune system from mistakenly attacking itself, ...
Aug. 20, 2024 — A team of researchers report that autoantibodies alone directly affect heart function in lupus ...
Aug. 14, 2024 — A team defined key cells behind severe kidney damage in lupus. The research can inform future antibody ...
Aug. 14, 2024 — Scientists have identified a rare, mutated version of a protein called TNIP1 that causes a chronic autoimmune disease similar to Sjogren's Syndrome ...
July 10, 2024 — Scientists have discovered a molecular defect that promotes the pathologic immune response in systemic lupus erythematosus (known as lupus) and show that reversing this defect may potentially reverse ...
July 1, 2024 — A team identifies target protein regulating autoimmune disease ...
May 23, 2024 — Treatment of autoimmune diseases like lupus has long relied on steroids to knock down the immune system, but more targeted therapies are currently undergoing clinical trials. To make sure these ...
Earlier Headlines
Sep. 13, 2024 — Researchers found that T cells recognize neoself-antigens -- abnormal, unfolded host proteins presented by major histocompatibility complex II (MHC-II) lacking the invariant chain -- as non-self ...
May 20, 2024 — An increase in nightmares and hallucinations -- or 'daymares' -- could herald the onset of autoimmune diseases such as ...
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. 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 ...
Feb. 6, 2024 — Researchers have worked out how to fix a defect that causes lupus, and hope their discovery will offer effective long-term ...
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 against the body's own cells. Researchers ...
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 sclerosis (MS) are more likely to have conditions like ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mar. 8, 2023 — Scientists have made an important breakthrough in understanding what goes wrong in our bodies during the progression of inflammatory diseases and -- in doing so -- unearthed a potential new ...
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. 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...