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While your journey may look different than others, you can still forge your own path with advocacy, columnist Marisa Zeppieri ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted regenerative medicine advanced therapy (RMAT) designation to FT819, a cell therapy Fate Therapeutics is developing to treat lupus. An RMAT ...
Near the end of 2024, the support group Lupus in Color posted the following “lupus serenity prayer” on Instagram: “God, grant me the serenity to accept the changes and challenges of living with lupus, ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted fast track designation to experimental cell therapy SC291 as a potential treatment for hard-to-manage systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Fast ...
Treatment with dapirolizumab pegol is better than a placebo at controlling disease activity in people with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), according to new results from a Phase 3 clinical trial.
Patient screening is underway in a U.S.-based clinical trial of NKX019, an investigational natural killer (NK) cell therapy for people with treatment-resistant lupus nephritis, a serious complication ...
There are six white seashells covered in sand that have been washed ashore by Lake Pontchartrain onto Lincoln Beach in New Orleans. It took me nearly half an hour to reach the spot where they lay.
About 91% of lupus patients report they are currently taking or had been using oral steroids to manage their symptoms, according to a global survey of more than 7,700 patients. “These survey results, ...
Depression is highly prevalent among people with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), but often goes undiagnosed, according to a single center study in Pakistan. People with lupus are at a higher risk ...
Seattle Children’s has been cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to start the nation’s first clinical trial testing CAR T-cell therapy in children with systemic lupus erythematosus, ...
Scientist Akiko Iwasaki will receive the Dr. William E. Paul Distinguished Innovator Award (DIA) to investigate whether ancient viral DNA in our cells is a potential trigger for lupus. The $1 million ...