The University of Rochester Medical Center in New York will host a 10th Lupus Education Day on Saturday, Oct. 15, providing a forum for people with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and their caregivers to interact and to better understand the latest developments in treating and managing the disease. “This is a great opportunity…
The Defense Appropriations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill allocating $5 million in new funding for a peer-reviewed Lupus Medical Research Program on May 17. The program, included in a 2017 Defense Appropriations spending bill, is to be operated by the U.S. Defense Department. A…
Today — Wednesday, May 18 — the six Lupus Agencies of New York State will be guests in the New York State Senate and Assembly as both houses recognize May as the 8th annual Lupus Awareness Month in the state. Legislative sponsors of the event are State Sen. Joseph Griffo…
Lupus, also known as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), is difficult to diagnose and a challenge to treat, with a range of symptoms and no known cause or cure. But treatment options exist, including therapies being studied at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. YaleNews’s Ziba Kashef recently interviewed Dr. Lenore Buckley —…
Today, May 10, is World Lupus Day, and to mark the day, the newly launched World Lupus Federation (WLF) undertook its first global initiative — releasing the results of one of the largest global surveys ever conducted into public awareness of and attitudes toward lupus. The online, six-question survey, conducted March…
A new lupus research plan to guide work toward a cure was introduced on Wednesday, March 16, in a special briefing to the U.S. Congress. The briefing was presented by the Lupus Federal Working Group, which includes the lupus advocacy organizations Alliance for Lupus Research (ALR),…
The Alliance for Lupus Research and The Lupus Research Institute, in conjunction with the Congressional Lupus Caucus, are inviting lawmakers to a lunchtime briefing on the “New Action Plan for Lupus Research” recently released by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal…
New York and Chicago based Lupus Research Institute (LRI) says its supporters and others have much to celebrate in a 2015 Omnibus Appropriations Bill passed in the House and Senate and signed into law by President Obama in mid-December. “We are proud that the strong presence of LRI patient…
Actress, singer, fashion designer and celebrity Selena Gomez’s revelation that she has been undergoing chemotherapy for lupus is raising the profile of the not well-understood disorder. A Grand Prairie, Texas, native, Gomez, 23, went public about her struggles with lupus recently, explaining to Billboard’s Joe Lynch that her recent…
Rheumatologists Dr. Thomas Dörner from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Department of Medicine, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, and Dr. Jonathan Kay of the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester have collaborated on a research effort to analyze clinical data on biosimilar drugs that have received…