New Treatment for Lupus: Medicine's Next Big Thing?

SAN ANTONIO. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- More than 1.5 million Americans have lupus, a disease where the body’s immune system attacks healthy tissue. It can lead to heart attacks, strokes, and kidney failure. In the past 50 years, only one new drug for lupus has been approved by the FDA. Just this summer, there have been two very major trials of a new lupus drug that both failed but now there is hope on the horizon.
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