New York researcher Virginia Pascual has received the $150,000 Lupus Insight Prize for work that promises to improve our understanding of events leading to the disease’s flare-ups. Pascual is a pioneer in lupus biomarkers, or molecular signals of the disease. She was recently appointed founding director of the Gale and…
Patients with active systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) were able to control their disease with Benlysta (belimumab) plus standard of care (prednisone), pharmaceutical giant GSK said in announcing the results from a 10-year continuation study. GSK presented the study’s results at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR 2017), held June 14-17 in Madrid. U.S.
The Lupus Foundation of America and American College of Rheumatology have started a campaign to let African-American and Hispanic women know that they are at higher risk of developing lupus. The aim of the “Be Fierce, Take Control” campaign is to raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of lupus among the…
MyHealthTeams, a San Francisco-based start-up that creates social networks for people with lupus and other chronic diseases, has obtained a second multi-million-dollar round of financing from Qiming Venture Funds. The $7.3 million came from a $100 million fund that Seattle-based Qiming U.S. Healthcare Fund created to back American…
American lupus patients will get an unusual chance in person or online to tell therapy developers and regulators what future treatments ought to do for them. Three national organizations are sponsoring the Washington-area gathering on Sept. 25, which those unable to make the trip can participate in by watching a…
Celgene and IMIDomics are teaming up to develop new approaches to treating immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) like lupus. The collaboration will give Celgene access to Barcelona-based IMIDomics’ database, which includes treatment and molecular data from patients who have the diseases. Kay goals are to identify new biomarkers for the disorders…
I have worn glasses since I was eight years old. I mostly wore glasses for driving at night, and for reading something far away. Because of this, I rarely wore my glasses to school. Then one day I woke up, 38 years old, and I couldn’t read the labels on…
The National Alliance for Hispanic Health is making a special effort during the current Lupus Awareness Month to increase awareness of the disease among Hispanics, including creating a Spanish-language fact sheet. “Very few Hispanics are aware of lupus, even though Hispanic women are among those with a higher prevalence of the disease,”…
Poverty and race can cast shadows over lupus patients’ health outcomes, according to two studies. One study showed a connection between poverty and worse lupus-related health problems over time. The other showed that African-American and Hispanic women with lupus have higher rates of adverse pregnancy outcomes than whites. The poverty-related…
A partnership between two U.S. medical organizations, the Directors of Health Promotion & Education (DHPE) and the Chi Eta Phi Sorority of nurses and nursing students, is raising awareness of lupus among healthcare providers by holding education sessions at all five Chi Eta Phi regional conferences. The latest regional…