Among the many things columnist Candace Semien had to learn while living with lupus were the types and function of various ...

TFAM is a protein critical for maintaining the integrity of mitochondrial DNA, and is among the molecules mitochondria release as a stress signal. But the potential role of TFAM in driving SLE-related ...

The focus of this year’s awareness month is “Make Lupus Visible” — given that the chronic condition is often invisible to others. For World Lupus Day on May 10, the World Lupus Federation, a global ...

Hey, friend, grab your tea and pull up a chair. I want to have an honest conversation about something we don’t talk about enough: grief. It’s not the kind of grief that comes with funerals and ...

If my body contributed to the Job of Living, it was limited to completing and surviving the day’s tasks and soaking in only essential oils and hot water. While I strategically planned to execute the ...

So what if, instead of resolving to do more, we commit to doing less? What do I mean by that exactly? Well, at the end of 2024, I was listening to a podcast about reflecting on your achievements from ...

Fast track status is given to therapies that have the potential to improve care for serious diseases, with the goal of speeding the review and development of possibly important new treatments. The FDA ...

A Phase 3 clinical trial called PHOENYCS GO (NCT04294667) tested the therapy in 321 people with SLE. Participants were randomly assigned to receive dapirolizumab pegol or a placebo, both administered ...

His soulful, smooth voice continues: “Yeah, let yourself go, follow that feeling/ Maybe something new is what you’re needing/ Like a real night, let your hair down, feel alive.” Doing something for ...

The patients overall had a mean PHQ-9 score of 12.45, which is consistent with moderate depression. All but two had some degree of depression: 20% were considered to have mild depression, while ...

The machine learning model was tested on 983 patients, who were not part of the initial datasets, to demonstrate that they could be classified into one of the eight endotypes. Each patient is given a ...

For me, spring and summer are my two most dreaded seasons. Like clockwork each year, the combination of the blazing sun and the stifling heat cause a flare-up that lasts three to four months. Add in ...