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Last Posted: Feb 29, 2024
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'It's all gone': CAR-T therapy forces autoimmune diseases into remission.
Heidi Ledford et al. Nature 2023 12

From the article: "Engineered immune cells have given 15 people with once-debilitating autoimmune disorders a new lease on life, free from fresh symptoms or treatments. The results raise hopes that the approach — called CAR-T-cell therapy — might one day be extended to a variety of other conditions fuelled by rogue immune cells that produce antibodies against the body’s own tissues. "

Women’s Unseen Battle: Shining a Light on Lupus
CDC, June 2023 Brand

Lupus is a non-infectious and chronic autoimmune disease that affects different parts of the body. Anyone can develop lupus. Those with the highest risk of developing lupus are women, ages 15 – 44 years, people from certain racial and ethnic minority groups, and people with a family history of lupus or other autoimmune diseases.


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