Through the Lupus Foundation of America’s Michael Jon Barlin Pediatric Lupus Research Program, Dr. Kathleen Sullivan of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is embarking on a five-year study to ...

The new guideline also recommends faster tapering to a lower dose of glucocorticoids and a longer duration of ...

Lupus typically presents in individuals between the ages of 15 and 44, although it can also affect children and, less frequently, people over 50. The latter cases tend to be less severe. Lupus ...

Since lupus can cause problems anywhere in the body, your child may need to see different types of pediatricians (doctors who provide care to children from birth to young adulthood) and health care ...

The drug’s safety and pharmacokinetic profiles in pediatric patients were consistent with those in adults with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Benlysta has been approved for use in adult ...

To differentiate the roles of steroid therapy and active disease in the dyslipoproteinemia of pediatric SLE, we measured fasting lipid profiles in 7 newly diagnosed, untreated patients and ...

A total of 15–20% of cases of SLE are diagnosed in children younger than 16 years (childhood-onset lupus). Although there have been few studies directly comparing childhood- to adult-onset lupus ...

Doctors in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, have successfully completed the world's largest clinical study of involving the use of CAR-T cell therapy to treat children with systemic lupus erythematosus.