Severe flu seasons in recent years have brought to light a little-known danger of influenza infections in kids: a rare brain ...

Identifying early predictors of chronic kidney disease (CKD) progression in patients with lupus nephritis may help define a high-risk group.

Chaz Langelier and team discover a partial explanation for why lupus gets better as patients age. It's because ...

According to the World Health Organization, in the year 2015, more than one crore cases of appendicitis were reported, out of which 50,100 of these succumbed to the disease. Appendicitis is a ...

The FDA has approved Benlysta in an autoinjector that can be used at home to treat lupus nephritis, a kidney complication, in children.

The symptoms can be more intense, and the disease can have long-term effects on a child's growth and quality of life," Louise Vetter, president and CEO of the Lupus Foundation of America, said in ...

Between 10 and 20 percent of all cases of lupus develop during childhood and up to 80 percent of children will develop lupus nephritis, a significant cause of morbidity in lupus. For these reasons ...

Louise Vetter, President and Chief Executive Officer, Lupus Foundation of America said: “In children, lupus tends to be more aggressive and severe than it is in adults. The symptoms can be more ...

Researchers identified different types of impact on patients, caused by these delays: Childhood isolation: Misattribution of undiagnosed lupus symptoms to “teenage laziness” led to reduced support ...