Systemic lupus erythematosus - For some decades, we've known that systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), the diffuse inflammatory connective tissue disease, can be caused by drugs like...

Lupus erythematosus - The food factor - Forty years ago, if you were diagnosed as having lupus, otherwise known as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), the prognosis would not have been good....

Kidney failure and hypertension - Q My 75-year-old friend has been diagnosed with kidney failure. Dialysis shows that her kidneys are working 15 per cent below normal efficiency. We ar...

Lupus erythematosus - Q:I have systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and would be interested to know of alternative therapy, if possible. I was diagnosed in 1989 when I had m...

Antinuclear antibody tests - If your doctor suspects that you have an autoimmune disorder such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), rheumatoid arthritis or scleroderma, he may a...

Hepatitis c more common in sle patients - An analysis of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) has found that this group of patients may be more vulnerable to contracting hepatitis...

Lupus-associated bone disease may come with steroids - Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) treated with high-dose steroids appear to develop osteonecrosis (bone death) within one month of star...

Boron aids sle sufferers - I have just been reading over again your excellent article about SLE (systemic lupus erythematosus) (WDDTY vol 7 no 9). About 20 years ago a patient c...