BELOIT, Wis. (WTVO) — Vanessa Fitz overcame an extremely high-risk pregnancy, where the main risk was death. Fitz has lupus, an autoimmune disease, and pulmonary hypertension, which causes high ...

Black patients, particularly women, have died from systemic lupus erythematosus at disproportionately ... which contains information on nearly all deaths in the United States.

Patients whose autoimmune disorders such as lupus were initially dismissed by doctors as psychosomatic show long-lasting adverse impacts on their mental health and trust in medicine, according to a ...

How Are Lupus and High Blood Pressure Related? Cardiovascular disease, which can be caused by high blood pressure, is the leading cause of death in those with lupus. This is because lupus affects ...

A 1-point increase in that index has previously been associated with a 34% increase in a lupus patient's risk of premature death, researchers noted. Anifrolumab patients also had a 61% lower risk ...

Although chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy has delivered previously unthinkable remission outcomes to patients with lupus and other rheumatic diseases, the cells currently in use remain ...

I believe in the covenant of LIFE, not death. Lupus will not defeat me, and it won’t defeat you either. To every lupus warrior: you are not alone. Your pain is part of your success story, shaping you ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted the supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) for obinutuzumab (Gazyva®) for the treatment of ...