Lupus in the News Your source for lupus-related news from around the web.

2012-09-18 16:04 For the patients with Lupus , besides proper medicine treatment, dietary nurisng care is also an important part to recover from the disease. Some kinds of wrong foods may make the illness condition even severer.

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Intel Corp. have collaborated to synthesize and study a grid-like array of short pieces of a disease-associated protein on silicon chips normally used in computer microprocessors. They used this chip, which was created through a process used to make semiconductors, to…

The debate on whether infection precipitates or prevents autoimmunity remains a contentious one. Recently the suggestion that some unknown microbe can be at the origin of some chronic inflammatory diseases has been countered by accumulating evidence that decreasing infection rates might have an important role to play in the rising…

By Victoria Wellman PUBLISHED: 17:27 EST, 22 June 2012 | UPDATED: 06:13 EST, 23 June 2012 A young woman from Dallas gave her husband the best wedding present he could have ever dreamed this week when she donated her kidney to save his life.

Revision of Classification Criteria for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Derivation and validation of Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics classification criteria for systemic lupus erythematosus Petri M, Orbai AM, Alarcón GS, Gordon C, Merrill JT, Fortin PR, Bruce IN, Isenberg D, Wallace DJ, Nived O, Sturfelt G, Ramsey-Goldman R, Bae SC, Hanly

Cardiovascular disease may play a major role in the premature cognitive decline that afflicts many patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, a longitudinal study revealed. The likelihood of cognitive impairment was doubled in patients with hypertension (OR 2.06, 95% CI 1.19 to 3.56) or a history of stroke (OR 2.27, 95…

It used to be that doctors told women with lupus that it was best for them not to get pregnant because of the high risk of potential complications. However, it is entirely possible for women with lupus to have healthy babies. Lupus pregnancies are considered high risk, though, and moms-to-be…

By Natasha Persaud If you have high LDL cholesterol, your doctor may have prescribed a statin medication, such as simvastatin (Zocor) or pravastatin (Pravachol). Now preliminary research has linked moderate doses of these statins to low energy and fatigue following exertion or exercise.

Lupus Disease & Symptoms. In healthy people, the immune system functions to protect the body against infection by destroying bacteria or other pathogens. If your immune system abnormally attacks the healthy tissues or cells in your body, you may be diagnosed with a condition called lupus.

This is a great slideshow that describes some of the effects that Lupus can have on the body.