About 5 million people worldwide live with the autoimmune condition lupus. This condition can cause a range of symptoms, ...

The cause of lupus has eluded medical researchers for decades. But this week a team of Stanford Medicine researchers claim they’ve cracked the code, a development some independent lupus experts ...

The younger that someone is when certain illnesses hit, especially before puberty, the more severe symptoms may be. And while ...

New evidence shows how the Epstein-Barr virus can hide in B cells and drive the core autoimmune response in lupus, pointing to the common virus as a possible cause.

Kathleen Ford of Solano County was a nurse for more than 20 years, until one day she squatted to help a patient and, hobbled ...

If you live in the United States, odds are high that a tiny passenger rides in your blood. By adulthood, more than 94 percent of people carry Epstein-Barr virus, or EBV, a germ that often spreads ...

66% of those with lupus will develop some form of skin disease. In this episode of The Expert Series, Victoria Werth, MD will teach you about how lupus can affect the skin as she describes skin lupus ...

And then acute cutaneous lupus, which includes having a butterfly rash that comes out often with sun exposure, and can look like either pink or red on the malar areas of the cheeks. And very often ...

Ruth Wilson doesn’t look sick yet “everywhere hurts all the time” – because her immune system is attacking her own body. The Massachusetts woman has lupus, nicknamed the disease of 1,000 faces for its ...

Our body's immune system is quick to spring into action when it spots a foreign object that shouldn't be there. Sometimes the same defense mechanism can get confused and end up attacking the very ...