Studies have revealed there is a gap between what lupus patients experience and what they tell their clinicians with results from a recent survey showing that closing this gap may lead to better communication and improved clinical management of the disease. The 2014 online survey funded and developed by GSK included 905 global respondents…
Sandra C. Raymond, President and CEO of the Lupus Foundation of America joined U.S. Representative Robin Kelly (D-IL), of Illinois’ 2nd Congressional District and Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Health Braintrust at an event Friday, September 18 to release official Congressional analysis of the state of African…
A team of researchers from Brazil and Israel review in a recent paper the evidences linking systemic lupus erythematosus and periodontal disease. The study entitled “Possible evidence of systemic lupus erythematosus and periodontal disease association mediated by Toll-Like Receptors-2 and 4 (TLR2, TLR4)” was published in the…
The Alliance for Lupus Research (ALR), a national volunteer health organization dedicated to finding better treatments and ultimately preventing and cure systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE, or lupus) has contributed more than $100 million to research and development for SLE. ALR recently sponsored New York Jets guard Willie Colon’s 1st Annual…
In a recent review paper published in Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism entitled “The CD27–CD70 pathway and pathogenesis of autoimmune disease“, researchers examined the role of the CD27 receptor and its ligand protein CD70 in functional changes of autoimmune diseases with particular focus on systemic lupus…
Despite intense research on autoimmune diseases like lupus, little is still known on how the immune system works to attack the patient’s tissues and organs. However, a recent study titled “Neutrophil trails guide influenza specific CD8+ T cells in the airways” and published early this month in the…
In a recent study entitled “Non-Classical monocytes display inflammatory features: Validation in Sepsis and Systemic Lupus Erythematous” published in the Scientific Reports journal, a team of researchers from India presented a robust method of identifying monocytes, a type of white blood cell that is involved in different…
A team of researchers from Argentina and the U.S. have explained how flare-ups in multiple sclerosis patients are intimately related to their melatonin levels, a natural occurring hormone that regulates our sleep/wake cycles – circadian rhythms. The team showed that melatonin alleviates disease symptoms by resetting the immune system, with these…
The Lupus Foundation of America has invited Scottsdale, Arizona’s Mayor, Jim Lane, as its guest of honor during the annual Walk to End Lupus Now fundraiser, the largest lupus walk program in the country, which is set to take place at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts on Saturday, September 19,…
In a recent study, presented during the European League Against Rheumatism Annual European Congress of Rheumatology, a group of Egyptian researchers compared vitamin D levels between patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and healthy individuals. The results were clear: vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency is present in SLE patients and vitamin activity is negatively correlated with…