But if you have lupus, your immune system doesn’t clear out the dead cells — and it attacks healthy cells instead. These attacks can lead to photosensitive lupus rashes and increase inflammation ...

Like most people with lupus, I’m very photo-sensitive, and in hot weather lupus causes a prickly heat rash, headaches and fatigue. I dread hot days – if it’s above 30 degrees, I can’t be in the sun ...

Lupus can be debilitating and sometimes deadly for the 3 million people who have it. A treatment called CAR T appears to stop ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved GSK's autoinjector of Benlysta (belimumab) for subcutaneous injection in ...

A team studied the differences between monogenic and nonmonogenic lupus nephritis and the predictors of end-stage kidney disease. Monogenic lupus nephritis is distinct from non-monogenic disease with ...

A lupus diagnosis can profoundly affect many aspects of a man’s life, from sense of identity and mental health to the way one ...

Guidelines recommend minimizing glucocorticoid exposure in patients with lupus (SLE), and research suggests this advice should also apply to those with lupus nephritis.

Lupus, an autoimmune disorder, presents skin manifestations like the butterfly rash, often mimicked by conditions such as ...

Serum S100A8/A9 levels are “significantly higher’ among patients with cognitive impairment in systemic lupus erythematosus, and changes in S100A8/A9 correspond to changes in cognition over 1 year, ...

Dysregulation of the alternative complement pathway, hallmarked by isolated reduction of the serum C3 fraction, is now recognized as an additional feature of lupus nephritis. Persistent, isolated low ...

Medically reviewed by Stella Bard, MD Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease in which your immune system mistakenly attacks ...

The lupus rash is not only a visible symptom but is also closely linked to the underlying systemic activity of lupus,” said Jan Klatt, Head of Development Unit Neurology & Immunology for the ...