Systemic Lupus Erythematosus News

• Does He Have Back Pain or Rheumatism? The search for evidence of inflammatory conditions is difficult, even for experts. One expert explains how this search can be successful.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2022
• CARRA 2022 Pfizer COVID Vax Performs Well in Youth With Rheumatic Diseases Nearly all participants in the study showed complete seroconversion, in contrast to similar studies in adults.
  Medscape Medical News, May 17, 2022
• Lenabasum Improved Skin Symptoms, in Small Dermatomyositis Trial In the phase 2 trial, skin biopsies before and after treatment showed significant reductions in inflammatory cytokines relevant to dermatomyositis pathogenesis.
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• Relugolix Combo Eases Long-Neglected Fibroid Symptom: Pain Combination therapy with relugolix (Orgovyx, Relumina), a gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonist, significantly reduced the pain of uterine fibroids in a new study.
  Medscape Medical News, May 11, 2022
• Maternal Autoimmune Diseases Up Risk of Mental Illness in Children The risk of mental disorders was 16% higher in offspring whose mothers had autoimmune diseases such as diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis, a new study found.
  Medscape Medical News, May 03, 2022
• BSR 2022 Lupus May Lead to Worse Stroke Outcomes for Women, but Not Men Women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) were 20% more likely to have a prolonged hospital stay and 28% less likely to have a routine home discharge, compared with patients who did not have SLE.
  Medscape Medical News, April 29, 2022
• Women in Rheumatology: A Look Back, a Look Forward This article takes a look at women's impact on the specialty in research, education, patient care, and leadership, as well as the evolving challenges they face.
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 2022
• Children With RMDs Not at High Risk for Severe COVID-19 A study of children and young people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases and COVID-19 showed that the majority had mild symptoms and that the hospitalization rate was low.
  Medscape Medical News, April 13, 2022
• JIA Disease Activity, Disability Linked to Social Factors For patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), levels of disease activity and disability vary, depending on family income, education level, and other social factors.
  Medscape Medical News, April 07, 2022
• For the Immunocompromised, COVID Remains a Major Threat 'It's just really scary as an immunocompromised person to not know what you're going to be presented with and how to prepare,' said Heather Benjamin, an immunocompromised woman in Burlington, Vermont.
  WebMD Health News, April 07, 2022
• AAD 2022 Study Links COVID-19 to Autoimmune and Vascular Diseases Information regarding development of autoimmune disease following SARS-CoV-2 infection has been limited, according to one of the investigators.
  Medscape Medical News, March 26, 2022
• COVID-19 Vaccines Effective in Younger Patients With Childhood-Onset Rheumatic Diseases A two-dose regimen of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines elicited a robust humoral neutralization response in almost all adolescents and young adults with childhood-onset rheumatic diseases in a new study from Singapore.
  Reuters Health Information, March 17, 2022
• Experimental Lupus Therapy Only Shows Significant Effect at Highest Dose Up to 54% of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus were helped by daily therapy with the experimental drug iberdomide, but only at the highest dose tested, researchers have reported.
  Reuters Health Information, March 16, 2022
• Updated Perioperative Guidance Says When to Hold Antirheumatics Rheumatologists and orthopedic surgeons revise advice on JAK inhibitors and add new medications.
  Medscape Medical News, March 04, 2022
• EULAR CVD Management Guidance Focuses on Gout, Lupus, Vasculitis The recommendations advise on managing cardiovascular health in patients with gout, vasculitis, systemic sclerosis, myositis, Sjögren syndrome, lupus, antiphospholipid syndrome, and other diseases.
  Medscape Medical News, February 24, 2022
• Troubling Questions Follow Closure of Sprawling Pain Clinic Chain Lags Medical Centers, one of California's largest chains of pain clinics, abruptly closed its doors amid a cloaked state investigation. Nine months later, patients are still in the dark about what happened.
  Kaiser Health News, February 22, 2022
• CROI 2022 Full Results of Anal Cancer Study Point to Barriers to Care The results from the landmark trial of preemptive treatment for precancerous anal cells show definitively that treatment should be standard of care. Now comes the hard part.
  Medscape Medical News, February 18, 2022
• RWCS 2022 Patients Interrupting DMARD Use Well Into the COVID-19 Pandemic Rates of patients stopping disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) have begun to rise after initially falling during the pandemic, with consequent rises in the incidence of disease flares.
  Medscape Medical News, February 17, 2022
• SMFM 2022 Aspirin Risks Unclear for Postpartum Bleeding Low-dose aspirin was linked to an increased risk of postpartum bleeding in women who did not stop taking the drug at least seven days before delivery, a new study found.
  Medscape Medical News, February 07, 2022
• Lilly Calls It Quits on Baricitinib's Development for Lupus The company said it is stopping phase 3 trials because of disappointing results.
  Medscape Medical News, January 31, 2022