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A Free, Informational Webinar Hosted by the Scleroderma Research Foundation on April 25, 2012 SAN FRANCISCO, April 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Scleroderma Research Foundation (SRF) is presenting the next webinar in their series for people living with scleroderma and others directly or indirectly affected by the disease. The free webinar will educate viewers to better understand the disease, what is being done to find a cure and what new treatments are on the horizon....
ANAHEIM, Calif., April 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOR) today announced that it will release first quarter 2012 financial results on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 after the close of the U.S. financial markets. The Company will host a conference call and slide presentation via webcast on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 4:30 p.m. Eastern / 1:30 p.m. Pacific to discuss results and highlights of the first quarter, as well as current corporate developments....
"Walk for Cure" Empowers Autoimmune Disease Community DANVERS, Mass., April 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The "Walk for Cure" Video Awareness campaign launches today to support the Scleroderma Foundation and its signature fundraising and awareness event, "Stepping Out to Cure Scleroderma." This multichannel media campaign hopes to spread more awareness about scleroderma, a rare autoimmune disease. WALKFORCURE.ORG is a video sharing website featuring a wall of scleroderma...
NEW YORK, April 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Founder of the S.L.E. Lupus Foundation Morrie Golick (1910-2012) died Monday, April 2 in his Florida home. Morrie is survived by his daughter Susan Golick and son-in-law Alan J. Wasserman, DDS, both of whom serve among the executive leaders of the organization. The S.L.E. Lupus Foundation was born in 1970 out of Morrie's devotion to Susan and his determination to find answers when she was diagnosed with lupus. The special...
A working group convened by the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) has evaluated more than 60 disease activity measures for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The group narrowed the number of RA disease activity measures and the recommended six for use in U.S. clinical practice are detailed in Arthritis Care & Research, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the ACR. RA is a systemic inflammatory disease, affecting more than 1 million Americans according to ACR estimates....
The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) has released the 2012 recommendations for the use of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) and biologic agents in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The guidelines published today in the ACR journal, Arthritis Care & Research, are an update to the 2008 recommendations and address the issues of initiating and switching drugs, screening for tuberculosis (TB) reactivation, immunization, and the use of biologics in high-risk RA...
New research in the FASEB Journal suggests that a lipid pathway (15-lipoxygenase-Lipoxin A4) is less active in females because estrogen reduces the activity and expression of this pathway Estrogen causes wounds in women to heal slower than in men - who have lower levels of estrogen - says a new study published in the April 2012 issue of the FASEB Journal. In the report, scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, provide the first evidence that mild injury response in the eye...
Three newly confirmed lupus genes are opening new avenues of research at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. A paper published in the April 6 issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics describes three lupus genes discovered by OMRF researchers as part of a massive international collaboration. With help from partners around the world, including universities and research facilities in Granada, Spain, Taipei, Taiwan, Seoul, Korea, Bogota, Colombia, and across the U.S., OMRF...
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ONXX) today announced the publication of an article in Cell, describing the crystal structures of two forms of the proteasome found in mammalian cells: the constitutive proteasome, expressed by the majority of cells in the body, and the immunoproteasome, expressed in cells derived from the bone marrow, including T-cells and B-cells, two types of white blood cells. In addition, this work...
WASHINGTON, March 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Lupus Research Institute Coalition of patient advocacy groups throughout the country were out in force on Capitol Hill yesterday to bring critical issues affecting the 1.5 million lupus patients nationwide to the attention of Congressional leaders. Stressing the need for increased public and professional education on lupus was validated by findings of a new survey released Tuesday showing a communication gap between patients and those...
