In most cases, lupus is not fatal. In fact, 80% to 90% of people who have this autoimmune disease will likely live a normal life span. Still, some people do die from the disease, in which your ...

Toni Braxton on living with lupus and spreading awareness about the disease 07:18 A complex clinical trial . Butler and her husband had read about CAR-T treatments for lupus being tested overseas ...

Measuring Lupus Fatigue. Fatigue is hard to define. It’s also hard to measure. There’s no blood or imaging test your doctor can give you to gauge how fatigued you are.

The cause of lupus has long escaped doctors trying to treat the autoimmune disease.. However, a study published this week identified a cause of lupus based on molecular defects in patients' blood ...

A new study about the underlying mechanisms of lupus presents a novel way to potentially treat the autoimmune disease. The study, led by researchers at Northwestern University and Brigham and ...

For now, CAR-T for lupus and other autoimmune diseases is pretty much only accessible in the U.S. through clinical trials—which, in effect, means it’s inaccessible to almost all lupus patients.