Among women followed for upwards of 25 years, those who ate relatively large amounts of "ultraprocessed" foods -- such as soft drinks, frozen pizzas, and mass-produced baked goods -- developed systemic lupus erythematosus at more than 50% greater rates than those with relatively low consumption, a new analysis of Nurses' Health Study data showed.

Cartesian Therapeutics, has announced their first-in-class mRNA-engineered chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy (mRNA CAR-T) therapy has been given to the first systematic lupus erythematosus (SLE). patient in a Phase 2 open-label clinical trial. 

A retrospective cohort study of biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (bDMARDs) persistence in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), shows the 3 year survicval to be under 50% but that all studied biologics were nearly equivalents with regard to safety and efficacy.