Stories & News

Celebrating Lupus Awareness Month

October 15, 2018

October 15, 2018 “For us, raising awareness about this awful disease isn’t limited to May. All year long, we are...

Serving Under-served Lupus Communities

October 15, 2018 The Lupus Research Alliance’s Multi-cultural Outreach Task Force is out in full force to raise awareness among...

Lupus Patient-Focused Drug Development Meeting

The Lupus Research Alliance collaborated with the Lupus and Allied Diseases Association and the Lupus Foundation of America on...

Patient Involvement: The Next Critical Step

October, 2018 Certainly, advocacy is absolutely necessary to generate funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other federal organizations,...

Advocacy on the Personal Level

“Advocacy has many forms, including taking action for one’s own health. It’s self-advocacy — even though many would not think...

Advocacy: The Critical First Step

Advocacy can mean different things to different people. Some seek to make changes in policy and funding at state...

Lupus Kidneys Copy Tumors’ Tactic to Protect Themselves

October 4, 2018 Abnormal immune cells invade the kidneys in patients with lupus and can damage the organs so severely...

Cancer Study Shows How Body’s Trash Pickup Fails in Lupus

October 4, 2018 Immune cells called macrophages that normally clear away the body’s trash don’t do their jobs in lupus....

Good News from Aurinia Pharmaceuticals for Lupus Nephritis

September 25, 2018 Congratulations to Aurinia Pharmaceuticals for completing patient enrollment in the AURORA Phase 3 clinical trial ahead of...

Better Survival Rates from Severe Lupus Nephritis

September 20, 2018 Significantly more people are surviving end-stage renal (kidney) disease caused by lupus nephritis according to a long-term...

Breaking Through Lupus Gala 2018

The Lupus Research Alliance celebrates our annual Breaking through Lupus Gala on November 19, 2018 at the Ziegfeld Ballroom...

Sheena M. Ogando, MD, RhMSUS, RYS200

September 18, 2018

Hello my precious Lupus-ees! My name is Sheena Ogando, I’m a born and raised New Yorker, part-time yoga instructor,...