After a year, a team of six specialists, eight medications, and countless nights mourning my "old" life and feeling desperately sorry for myself, there was a conclusion: I had lupus.
Joel Drucker | Posted 04.04.2012
The tale of my prostate cancer journey starts nearly 50 years ago with a statement my late wife, Joan Edwards, made one morning in elementary school.
Posted 04.09.2012
It's been three months since Nick Cannon was hospitalized for "mild kidney failure," a condition that he later revealed to be the result of an autoimm...
Posted 03.01.2012
While high rates of sickle cell anemia and lupus prevail in the black community, often requiring blood transfusions, experts say African Americans cur...
Posted 01.06.2012
With her exhibition 'Bioillogical', Carol Es crafts test-tube-dwelling oddities that make diseases look bizarrely darling. As the exhibition title su...
Posted 11.28.2011
By Angelica Catalano for YouBeauty.com "But -- you look so good!" your friend says with a confused look, after hearing that you're sick. One of ...
Nancy Ruhling | Posted 01.23.2012
It's Thanksgiving time, and Kim Parshley is getting ready to make her famous pumpkin pie. She wishes the recipe had been handed down from her grandmother. It wasn't; she was left to concoct it all by herself.
Adam Selkowitz | Posted 05.25.2011
If you had asked me about running a 5K a year ago, I would have laughed; given my limited lung capacity, any kind of extended cardiovascular exercise is extremely difficult.
AP | MATTHEW PERRONE | Posted 05.25.2011
ADELPHI, Md. — Federal health experts on Tuesday voted in favor of the first new drug to treat Lupus in over 50 years, setting aside concerns th...
Robyn Okrant | Posted 11.17.2011
On Thanksgiving morning this year, I had an eye opening moment. After breakfast, I popped open the Thursday compartment of my obscenely large day-a-we...
Janet Janjigian | Posted 05.25.2011
"I have lupus...take a look, this is what lupus looks like," declared Grammy Award winning artist Toni Braxton, as she accepted the Women In Achievement Award from Lupus LA this month.
Linda David | Posted 11.17.2011
More than 1.5 million Americans have lupus. That is more than have AIDS, cerebral palsy, ms, sickle-cell anemia or cystic fibrosis, making lupus one of the country's most prevalent medical problems.
Robert Ellis Gordon | Posted 11.17.2011
When I took ill in 1989, I discovered what so many others had discovered: that private insurance companies didn't like me any more. Here's what else I've learned since then, and my message to the President.
Kate Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011
Legislation concerning the changes for the drug approval process on a special type of medicine (biologic medicines) could provide huge savings -- a major need with health care reform.
Paul Loeb | Posted 05.25.2011
Given the size of my existing medical debt, a second miracle remission is simply out of the question. The resulting stress would prove to be fatal.
Hillary Rubin | Posted 11.17.2011
My life was focused on looking good, being at the right parties and doing whatever it took to make it to the top. You had to work to get into the inner circles. Drugs were a must.
Bonnie Fuller | Posted 05.25.2011
Maybe it wasn't just the stress of the child molestation charges and trials that forced him to put his performance career on hold. Maybe, he was simply unwilling to share his medical problems with the public.
Wendy Diamond | Posted 05.25.2011
Lucky & I started off the week at the New York City Bag Ladies Luncheon at the Metropolitan Club.
Lauren Finney | Posted 05.09.2012