Lupus: An invisible enemy with many faces – how to recognize it?
Lupus, an often overlooked autoimmune disease, primarily affects women and can seriously affect their health. Understanding its symptoms and identifying ...
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Lupus: Air pollution could affect risk
Long-term exposure to air pollutants may increase the risk of developing lupus, an autoimmune disease that affects multiple organs. THE ...
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What if nightmares were symptoms of autoimmune disease?
A team of researchers reveals that nightmares and hallucinations may be warning signs of autoimmune diseases, such as lupus. THE ...
Read moreLupus: here are the symptoms to spot
Here are the symptoms of lupus, an autoimmune disease that mainly affects women. THE ESSENTIAL The most common symptom of ...
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Lupus: what can trigger the disease?
The causes of the appearance of lupus remain unknown today, but certain factors can contribute to it. THE ESSENTIAL Systemic ...
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Lupus: a new therapeutic target discovered
A mutation causing lupus has just been discovered, which could lead to new tests and treatments. THE ESSENTIAL Lupus is ...
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Lupus: alert on biosimilar drugs
The French Lupus Association (AFL+) warns about biosimilar drugs. THE ESSENTIAL France currently markets around forty biosimilar drugs, which include ...
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Doctors tell her she’s overweight, it was lupus
Doctors took several years before making the diagnosis of Alexandra Marcela's illness, assuring that her ailments were due to her ...
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Catatonia: She wakes up after receiving treatment for lupus
A woman hospitalized in psychiatry for two decades, due to schizophrenia and catatonia, saw a very significant improvement in her ...
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Lupus and pregnancy: “We had a year with my husband to conceive a child”
On the occasion of World Lupus Day, which took place on May 10, Johanna Clouscard explains that it is possible ...
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Lupus: 5 people in remission thanks to an experimental treatment
© Shutterstock / Maks_labSystemic lupus erythematosus or systemic lupus is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system of patients ...
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Lupus: how does the sun trigger flare-ups?
Study reveals how UV rays from the sun activate the immune system and flare up disease in lupus. THE ESSENTIAL ...
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Lupus: 5 patients in remission thanks to a new cell therapy
After receiving genetically modified immune cells, five adults with lupus observed, in three months, a disappearance of the symptoms of ...
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In women, post-traumatic stress increases the risk of lupus
© ThinkstockIn France, 20,000 people suffer from systemic lupus erythematosus (LEP): 25 out of 100,000 French people are affected by ...
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Lupus: understand everything about this chronic autoimmune disease
Lupus is a rare disease with various manifestations. Characterized by skin lesions, it can affect different organs. Treatments can stabilize ...
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Lupus: a gene potentially responsible for its appearance has been identified
Australian scientists have discovered that when a gene called 'TLR7' is over-activated, it causes lupus, a chronic autoimmune disease. This ...
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Lupus and depression: Selena Gomez confides
Actress and singer Selena Gomez confided once again in her mental health, impacted by her lupus. THE ESSENTIAL The American ...
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Covid-19: Activation of immune cells in the severe form works like for Lupus
In the severe form of Covid-19, as in systemic lupus erythematosus, the immune cells do not have time to specialize, ...
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Diabetes, cancer, lupus…: hypersomnolence in the elderly should alert you
Excessive daytime sleepiness has been associated with a higher risk of developing several pathologies in the elderly. Explanations. THE ESSENTIAL ...
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DNA tests: a company uses the genetic data of its customers to develop new drugs
The Spanish pharmaceutical firm Almirall has acquired the rights to a drug producing antibodies resistant to proteins capable of blocking ...
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Lupus: Potential treatment yields encouraging results
Lupus is a rather elusive disease that today has no cure. However, a molecule, which had not proven itself in ...
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How our immune system has evolved to make us more vulnerable to certain diseases
Genetic mutations that allow us to fend off deadly infections would have made us more vulnerable to inflammatory and autoimmune ...
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Lupus: a diet high in fiber could be beneficial
© Getty imagesLupus is an autoimmune disease that affects approximately 40 out of 100,000 French people each year. Largely female ...
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Lupus may be linked to gut flora imbalance
A chronic and diffuse autoimmune disease throughout the body, lupus could be caused by an abnormal proliferation of bacteria in ...
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Lupus: what is this little known disease that affects Selena Gomez and Lady Gaga?
Little known, lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease. It is most often manifested by lesions in the skin and joint ...
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Lupus: what is behind this autoimmune disease
© iStockPhotosWhat is lupus?For many of us, lupus is primarily the name of a disease dear to Dr House but ...
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Lupus: targeted treatment shows great promise and is already available
For the first time in systemic lupus erythematosus, ustekinumab, an interleukin 13/23 inhibitor already available in other diseases, demonstrates its ...
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Cancer, lupus: the problem of sunscreen on dark skin
In the United States as in France, sunscreen manufacturers are struggling to manufacture products that are aesthetically compatible with non-white ...
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Smoking increases the risk of lupus in women
© ThinkstockIf the causes of this disease remain obscure, it would seem that a set of factors, genetic, environmental and ...
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Lupus: a new monoclonal antibody improves treatment
In lupus, a new molecule that blocks a protein that abnormally stimulates the immune system, very clearly improves the disease ...
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