Systemic lupus erythematosus News

THURSDAY, May 10 (HealthDay News) -- Sometimes it takes years for people to get diagnosed with lupus. That wasn't the case for Marisa Zeppieri-Caruana, who had so many of the classic systemic lupus erythematosus symptoms -- such as a butterfly-sha...

THURSDAY, May 3 (HealthDay News) -- When diagnosed with lupus, one in three people already has kidney inflammation, and during the first 10 years with the disease as many as 60 percent of patients will have some kidney problems. Because kidney inf...

THURSDAY, Feb. 16 (HealthDay News) -- Women with rheumatoid arthritis or systemic lupus erythematosus often have fewer children than they'd hoped for, according to a new study. These autoimmune diseases, which typically develop during women's repr...

THURSDAY, May 19 (HealthDay News) -- Black Americans with lupus have a higher antibody response to flu vaccination than whites with lupus, a new study says. This may be good news for black Americans with the disease, since patients who had a weak ...

FRIDAY, May 6 (HealthDay News) -- People with two common inflammatory diseases stand a higher chance of developing a heart condition that is strongly associated with stroke, a new study suggests. The study, done at the University of Arkansas for M...

FRIDAY, Dec. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Children and adults with kidney disease caused by the autoimmune disease lupus have a higher risk of death than those with other types of kidney disease, researchers have found. Systemic lupus erythematosus, com...

TUESDAY, Nov. 16 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisers voted 13-2 Tuesday to recommend approval of the first new drug in more than 50 years to treat the autoimmune disease lupus. The drug, belimumab (Benlysta), is a so-cal...

TUESDAY, Nov. 16 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisers were weighing Tuesday whether to recommend the first new drug in more than 50 years to treat the autoimmune disease lupus. The drug, belimumab (Benlysta), is a so-call...

FRIDAY, Nov. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Over the past 10 years, treatment options for patients with an inflammatory kidney disorder known as lupus nephritis have vastly improved, according to a new review. This means that patients with lupus nephritis,...

FRIDAY, Sept. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Blacks and Hispanics appear more likely than whites to develop the most common form of the autoimmune disease lupus and to develop more severe complications from it, new research shows. Lupus, also known as sys...