Voclosporin Said to Show Benefit in Lupus Nephritis
(MedPage Today) -- Significant responses seen in phase IIb trial (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - August 24, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Treatment for Pediatric MLN Remains Irregular (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Study found variation in clinical practice for membranous lupus nephritis (Source: MedPage Today Rheumatology)
Source: MedPage Today Rheumatology - August 23, 2016 Category: Rheumatology Source Type: news
Vitamin D Deficiency Is As Dangerous As Smoking
The advice you’re getting from your doctor, the TV and even the Surgeon General is so wrong, it’s scary.
They’re all busy telling you to stay out of the sun.
But Swedish researchers recently discovered that nonsmokers who avoid the sun have a life expectancy similar to smokers who spend a lot of time in the sun.
Staying out of the sun is as dangerous as smoking.1
It doesn’t surprise me. I tell all my patients sunlight exposure is essential to our health because it is the best source of vitamin D… possibly the most important nutrient we know of.
Mainstream medicine still doesn’t recogn...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - May 19, 2016 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Al Sears Tags: Health Source Type: news
Lead and Kidneys
The recent news about lead exposure from city water in Flint, Michigan, has renewed many people's concerns about an environmental cause of kidney disease. For years, extraordinary efforts have been made to eradicate environmental lead exposure by eliminating lead based gasoline, stopping the sale of lead based paints, removing lead based paint from older homes, and monitoring of blood lead levels in children and the public by local health departments. All of these activities have resulted in consistently fewer reports of lead-associated kidney disease. Environmental exposure from lead in water has only recently been recogn...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - March 23, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Acute interstitial nephritis following snake envenomation: a single-center experience - Priyamvada PS, Shankar V, Srinivas BH, Rajesh NG, Parameswaran S.
OBJECTIVES: To identify the clinical and histopathological characteristics of patients who develop acute interstitial nephritis (AIN) following snake envenomation. METHODS: A retrospective analysis of patients diagnosed with snake envenomation-indu... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 20, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Non-Human Animals and Insects Source Type: news
Autoimmune attack underlying kidney failure
Interstitial nephritis, a common cause of kidney failure, has a complex and largely unknown pathogenesis. In a new published paper, a team of researchers shows how interstitial nephritis can develop from an autoimmune attack on the kidney’s collecting duct. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - March 16, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Nick Cannon Looks Back On His 'Super Scary' Lupus Diagnosis
Nick Cannon didn't know anything about lupus nephritis when he was first diagnosed in 2012, so hearing that some of his other health complications were the result of the autoimmune disease came as a surprise. It was only after Cannon did some research on the condition, which had resulted in kidney failure and blood clots in his lungs, that he began to understand and take care of his well-being. Now he hopes his story encourages others to do the same. "[Y]ou realize that this is something that you can live with and actually overcome with the proper research and with the proper support system," he told HuffPost Live. I...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 24, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Nephritis in Sjögren's Syndrome Responds to MMF (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Modest increases in estimated GFR seen with the immunosuppressant (Source: MedPage Today Rheumatology)
Source: MedPage Today Rheumatology - January 18, 2016 Category: Rheumatology Source Type: news
How Terrified Should We Be?
After every terrorist attack we go through a period of overwhelming fear that we will individually be the target of terrorism. Recently a man told me that he will avoid going to crowded areas of the city because he fears being killed by a terrorist. A woman fears flying because she fears the plane will be blown up by a terrorist. Years ago, after 9/11, a woman told me that she feared "Arab-looking men" in the subway. And, after 9/11, years ago, a family moved to Colorado from New York City because of their fear of terrorism. Fear pervaded the lives of many people and, once again, after the attack in San Bernardino, Califo...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - December 23, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Nephrologists to help find treatment for lupus
(Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso) Nephrologists at Texas Tech University Health Science Center El Paso have been invited to participate in a national consortium that's investigating the key causes of lupus nephritis -- an autoimmune disease that can cause kidney failure. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - November 16, 2015 Category: Biology Source Type: news
CellCept Useful for Lupus Nephritis in Hispanics (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- In comparison, azathioprine had more than twice the risk of flares during maintenance (Source: MedPage Today Nephrology)
Source: MedPage Today Nephrology - September 29, 2015 Category: Urology & Nephrology Source Type: news
Lupus Nephritis Affects One Third of Patients With LupusLupus Nephritis Affects One Third of Patients With Lupus
Patients with lupus who have nephritis had high rates of end-stage renal disease and death and a lower quality of life, a longitudinal study showed. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Nephrology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Nephrology Headlines - September 22, 2015 Category: Urology & Nephrology Tags: Rheumatology News Source Type: news
Lupus Nephritis Treatment
Title: Lupus Nephritis TreatmentCategory: Doctor's & Expert's views on SymptomsCreated: 3/1/2002 12:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 9/16/2015 12:00:00 AM (Source: MedicineNet Arthritis General)
Source: MedicineNet Arthritis General - September 16, 2015 Category: Rheumatology Source Type: news
Tacrolimus Comes Out Tops for Lupus Nephritis (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Meta-analysis compares the available immunosuppressants. (Source: MedPage Today Rheumatology)
Source: MedPage Today Rheumatology - July 25, 2015 Category: Rheumatology Source Type: news
Lupus Nephritis Response Criteria in Lupus Activity IndicesLupus Nephritis Response Criteria in Lupus Activity Indices
To advance the knowledge of how to treat lupus nephritis, well-designed clinical trials informed by prior randomized controlled trials are needed. Arthritis Research & Therapy (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - July 21, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Rheumatology Journal Article Source Type: news
