Caroline McLean, 32, of Atlanta, was working for Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA) in Washington, DC, when she was diagnosed with lupus in 2011. “I was a young, single professional,” she says. “I didn’t want ...

"I was always told that losing weight would fix all my problems," Alexandra Marcela tells PEOPLE Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Doctors told a woman she was “heavy set” and that all her health problems would go away if she lost weight — but she was really suffering from a potentially fatal autoimmune disease. Alexandra Marcela ...

Her condition could deteriorate at any time if her mother stopped transporting her to the hospital. Despite being in and out of the hospital, Mukami, now 25, earned 296 points in her admission to ...

Share on Facebook. Opens in a new tab or window Share on X. Opens in a new tab or window Share on LinkedIn. Opens in a new tab or window An 11-year-old girl developed an asymptomatic rash on her face, ...

When I was in high school, I got a rash on my arm that I initially thought was a bug bite. Nothing we tried to treat it worked, and then it started to spread. It took two years and 10 doctors to ...

— -- Selena Gomez is finally opening up about the real reason she took some time off in 2013: The pop star was busy with treatment for lupus. In a new interview with Billboard, the actress-singer ...

Toni Braxton, the Grammy Award-winning R&B singer, has been living with systemic lupus erythematosus since her diagnosis in 2008. The chronic health condition causes inflammation and pain in any part ...

The baby was diagnosed with neonatal lupus erythematosus (NLE). A skin biopsy taken from her back revealed interface dermatitis with dyskeratosis and increased dermal mucin. Echocardiogram and ECG ...

Alexandra Marcela, 26, diagnosed with lupus after years of misdiagnosis. When Alexandra Marcela was diagnosed with lupus at age 20, she'd never heard of the autoimmune disease before. Her health ...