What is lupus, and what does it do to your body? I just had a friend diagnosed with it after many months of tests. -- T.S.B.

In Washington, DC and state capitals around the country, Lupus Foundation of America advocates tell their stories and urge ...

Among the many things columnist Candace Semien had to learn while living with lupus were the types and function of various ...

A team studied the differences between monogenic and nonmonogenic lupus nephritis and the predictors of end-stage kidney disease. Monogenic lupus nephritis is distinct from non-monogenic disease with ...

Guidelines recommend minimizing glucocorticoid exposure in patients with lupus (SLE), and research suggests this advice should also apply to those with lupus nephritis.

A 35-year-old man presents with a chief complaint of purple discoloration of his toes and associated skin lesions that have ...

Dysregulation of the alternative complement pathway, hallmarked by isolated reduction of the serum C3 fraction, is now recognized as an additional feature of lupus nephritis. Persistent, isolated low ...

1 in every 250 Black women will develop lupus (Lupus.org); Black women are three times more likely to get lupus than white women (CDC); The mortality rate for Black women with lupus is 3 times higher ...