Author Archives: Marisa Wexler, MS

Black Women with SLE Find Self-Management Program Improves Health

An educational program done in small, local, and peer-led groups, called the Chronic Disease Self‐Management Program, was seen as helpful by African-American women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), improving their diet, ability to exercise, and their adherence to treatment, a study suggests. The study, “Exploring…

Low-dose IL-2 Reduces Disease Activity in SLE, Trial Results Suggest

Adding low-dose interleukin-2 (IL-2) to standard therapy increases responses and complete remission of lupus nephritis in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), results of a randomized clinical trial suggest. Patients on IL-2 had higher proportions of regulatory T cells, a subset of immune T cells associated with…