Many different lab tests are used to find changes in your body that can happen with lupus. The results of each test help your doctor get a fuller picture of your health. Because lab tests alone can’t ...

If you or someone you love has been diagnosed with lupus, it can take a while to process and adjust to the ways that your life may change. Along with new habits you may need to adopt and treatments ...

Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology, Interim Director of Blood Bank, and Associate Director of Coagulation Laboratory at the University of Chicago Medical Center Antiphospholipid ...

ImmunArray, a molecular diagnostic company operating in Richmond and Rehovot, Israel, is making a name for itself in detecting disease and brain injury. In October the company rolled out a blood test ...

Columnist Candace Semien waited years for a lupus diagnosis, and thanks to a caring nurse practitioner, she finally got one.

With $5 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), two University of Houston biomedical researchers are moving the needle on early detection and monitoring of kidney nephritis, or ...

Lupus anticoagulants (LAs) are a type of antibody produced by the immune system. LAs relate to an immune system disorder known as antiphospholipid syndrome. A blood test can detect their presence.

A gamma-globulin factor in the serum of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus that reacts with isolated cell nuclei 1 or nucleoprotein 2,3 has been detected in many ways. 4 The standard method of ...

Based on several different factors, scientists have a new risk index for predicting who will develop lupus. From the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, the new diagnostic test could help ...