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

However, for the vast majority of lupus flares the initial treatment has to be systemic glucocorticoids. For most manifestations, prednisone at 0.25–0.5 mg/kg body weight (or equivalent) is ...

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Will drinking alcohol upset your symptoms, cause a flare, or make one worse? The answer depends on a few factors, but Crohn’s disease and alcohol often don’t mix well.

Margrit Wiesendanger, MD, PhD, explores lupus symptoms, diagnosis challenges, and the importance of early detection to prevent inflammation-related damage.

The analysis of 3 dozen studies found similarities and differences in motivating factors for and against clinical trial participation among patients with the 2 autoimmune diseases.

In contrast to relapsing‐remitting patterns, persistently active disease (PAD) is a disease activity pattern in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) that is inadequately studied. We ...

Both flare and persistently active disease (PAD) are common disease activity patterns in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). A large prospective multinational cohort study, published ...

Extrarenal lupus flares continue to occur in more than one-third of patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) receiving renal replacement therapy (RRT), investigators report. Flare risk is ...