A lupus diagnosis is based on clinical symptoms (past and present), a family history (the medical history of close family members such as your grandparents, parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins) ...

If your doctor thinks you might have lupus, they may ask you to take blood tests to check for antibodies in your blood. The most common antibody test is called the antinuclear antibody (ANA) test.

Following a limited three-month trial period in which more than one hundred and fifty patients with lupus-like symptoms were tested for the difficult-to-diagnose disease, a new blood test for lupus is ...

Renal function testing is underused to diagnose and manage lupus nephritis. Appropriate testing may help reduce disease progression and the associated worsening of outcomes. Investigators analysed ...

A simple blood test could match people with lupus who do not respond to current treatments with an innovative combination of drugs, according to researchers. It is hoped the test, which looks for ...

Lupus Therapeutics announced the start of a collaboration to conduct three Phase 3 clinical trials testing an investigational therapeutic ianalumab for systemic lupus erythematosus and lupus nephritis ...

Did you know an estimated one-and-a-half to two million Americans have some form of lupus? Many of them go undiagnosed as symptoms vary and can easily be confused with other illnesses. Sometimes, it ...

BARCELONA -- A novel antibody-based drug targeting the CD40 ligand helped close to half of patients with treatment-refractory systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) get symptoms under control, according ...

Nearly all people who have systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) test positive for antinuclear antibody (ANA), but a small number can develop lupus without ANA, known as seronegative or ANA-negative ...