New research, conducted by scientists at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD, finds that low vitamin D raises the risk of organ damage and renal disease in people with lupus – an autoimmune disease. New research suggests vitamin D supplementation may be a good way to prevent renal damage in lupus patients. Dr....
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New guidelines published to improve diagnosis and treatment of lupus
A University of Birmingham academic has led the authorship of the UK’s first guideline on the care of adults with systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus). Published today in Rheumatology, the guideline has been created by the British Society of Rheumatology, and covers diagnosis, assessment, monitoring and treatment of patients with mild, moderate and severe lupus. Lead guideline author Caroline...
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PTSD linked with increased lupus risk
Regions of the brain associated with stress and posttraumatic stress disorder. In a study published in Arthritis & Rheumatology, trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in civilian women were strongly associated with increased risk of developing lupus, an autoimmune disease. In the study of 54,763 women, investigators found a nearly three-fold elevated risk of...
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Why lupus sufferers may need kidney transplants: As Selena Gomez reveals going under the knife, we explain the disease’s paralyzing side effects
The 25-year-old singer revealed on Instagram that her best friend donated her kidney for her this summer Selena admitted to her chronic illness in 2015 and how she has struggled with it Lupus is an illness where the body’s immune system attacks healthy tissues and organs such as the skin, joints, kidney and brain People...
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Feinstein Institute Identifies Potential Cause for Lupus
MANHASSET, N.Y., July 14, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Leading rheumatologist and Feinstein Institute for Medical Research Professor Betty Diamond, MD, may have identified a protein as a cause for the adverse reaction of the immune system in patients suffering from lupus. A better understanding of how the immune system becomes overactive will help lead to more effective treatments for lupus and...
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Omega-3 fatty acid stops lupus trigger, but how?
Michigan State University scientists have received a $2.3 million, five-year National Institutes of Health grant to help uncover why an omega-3 fatty acid, known as DHA, is so effective in stopping a known trigger of lupus. Previous MSU research has shown that consuming DHA, or docosahexaenoic acid, which is found in fatty, cold-water fish,...
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Stressed Out Interferons Reveal Potential Key to Alternative Lupus Treatment
Stressed Out Interferons Reveal Potential Key to Alternative Lupus Treatment Iwona Buskiewicz, Ph.D., left, and colleagues, including Andreas Koenig, Ph.D., far right, in their lab in the Given building at the Larner College of Medicine at UVM. (Photo: Andy Duback) Only one new drug has become available over the past 50 years for the estimated...
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T cell type that promotes damaging immune response discovered
For the first time, researchers have identified a type of T cell that plays a key role in promoting the damaging autoimmune response that inflames and attacks the joints in rheumatoid arthritis. The discovery – made with technologies that help to analyze just a “handful of cells” – offers vital new clues to the biology...