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The S.L.E. Lupus Foundation, headquartered in New York City with West Coast offices in Los Angeles, is the country's preeminent nonprofit organization providing direct patient services, education, public awareness and funding for novel lupus research on the national level.
 
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Major Report to Congress by Secretary of Health and Human Services Documents Need for National Lupus Health Education Program

New report resulting from Lupus Research Institute’s congressional advocacy describes state of lupus research, impact of disease, and barriers to care

Our Hearts Go Out to Haiti

As at so many organizations, we have supporters and friends and families in the nation’s Haitian community—particularly in Brooklyn, where our outreach center serves the large Haitian community with lupus there—who are suffering profoundly from the loss of so many loved ones.


SA OU DWE KONNEN SOU MALADI KI RELE LOUPOUS LA

(Creole for What You Should Know About Lupus)

 

In reaching out as you have done for so many who suffer from lupus, please join us now in contributing to organizations on the ground in Haiti tending to the homeless, hungry, and injured.

The S.L.E. Lupus Foundation and Councilman Mathieu Eugene, New York City’s first Haitian-born council member, recommend donations to such organizations as:

Fifty percent of Haitians are children, a group that tends to develop particularly severe damage
and other complications
when lupus strikes.

Free Lupus Information Line
—in English/Spanish/Creole—
is at 1-800-74-LUPUS

Urgent! Tell Congress 2010!

Foundation’s 2009 Life Without Lupus Gala Marks a Decade of Leadership in Creativity, Community, and Change

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Lupus Research Institute Announces a “Breakthrough Decade”: $100 Million for Innovative Lupus Research

Our Lupus Research News

Lupus Research Institute: Benlysta™ trial results in an historic research breakthrough and victory for people with lupus

Second successful phase III trial points to the first new lupus treatment in over 50 years

More Good News for Lupus at the American College of Rheumatology Meeting

Human Genome Sciences and GlaxoSmithKline Report Details of First Positive Phase 3 Clinical Trial for Lupus

Lupus Research Institute Investigator Leads Discovery on Key Blood Anticoagulant

Salk Institute for Biological Studies scientist Greg Lemke, PhD, credits LRI Support

Funding for Lupus Discoveries Tops $70 Million

Innovative ideas keep winning new support at the NIH

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Lupus in the News

Sisters Helping SistersSisters Helping Sisters

Study in Sisters of Women with SLE
Enrollment begins nationwide

The Lupus Drug Gold Mine

After decades of dead ends scientists find new treatments

Twin Epigenetics Study IDs Methylation Differences in Lupus

ImmuPharma PLC: Encouraging Final Phase IIb Results Seen with LUPUZOR(TM) in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Greatest Benefits Seen in Patients with Moderate to Severe Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Human Genome Sciences and GlaxoSmithKline Announce Positive Results in Second of Two Phase 3 Trials of Benlysta™ in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

ACR: Depression and CVD Linked in Patients with Lupus

Genetic Link to Lupus
More Than a Dozen Different Genes May Play a Role in Causing Lupus

The Body Count at Home

 

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