These can include blood tests, urine tests, and even biopsies. How common is lupus? About 1.5 million Americans have lupus and there are an estimated 16,000 new cases of the disease every year.

These can include blood tests, urine tests, and even biopsies. How common is lupus? About 1.5 million Americans have lupus and there are an estimated 16,000 new cases of the disease every year.

These can include blood tests, urine tests, and even biopsies. How common is lupus? About 1.5 million Americans have lupus and there are an estimated 16,000 new cases of the disease every year.

HEALTH Lupus expert debunks 7 common myths about the autoimmune disease: ‘Not a death sentence’ Dr. Brooke Goldner, who lives with lupus, has dedicated her life to raising awareness of the disease ...

Systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus) is a chronic autoimmune disease that can affect any organ or tissue, including the skin, joints, heart, brain, lungs, and kidneys. The unpredictable nature of ...

"Lupus is an autoimmune disease that at its core involves abnormal B cell activation and antibody production," study author Deepak Rao, M.D., PhD, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard ...

Given that autoantibodies to neoself-antigens are frequently found in patients with autoimmune diseases, the researchers explored T cell reactivity in patients with lupus and in mice, in which Ii ...

Scientists may have pinpointed a primary cause of lupus, a chronic autoimmune disease. Researchers from Northwestern Medicine in Chicago and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston claim they ...

Autoimmunity and autoantibodies in lupus When the immune system is working to remove antigens from the body, it causes some inflammation that damages healthy tissue. Typically, this damage is very ...