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Save the date: Dine Out for Lupus - May 14, 2013.
Simply dine out at a participating restaurant (more information coming soon), and your restaurant will donate part of the proceeds to LFNC and lupus research.
December 8, 15, 22
11 am to 12 noon: "Moving with Lupus" Exercise Class. See our website for more detail.
December 18
2012 Lupus Treatment and Research Update (mini-conference), Women's Building, San Francisco
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Mayo Clinic Develops Infection Risk Score for RA Patients with Co-existing Illness
 The researchers at the Mayo Clinic continue to do excellent work. From a study published in Arthritis & Rheumatism, vol. 64, p. 2847, as described by the Johns Hopkins Medicine's Health After 50 newsletter:
Mayo Clinic researchers have developed an infection risk score that takes into account several factors that can raise infection risk, such as age, corticosteroid use, disease activity, inflammatory markers, previous serious infections, and coexisting serious illness.
Lupus patients are often known to suffer simultaneously from Rheumatoid Arthritis, and are often prescribed corticosteroids in high dosages. This in-depth study of risk factors will allow doctors to treat patients to reduce infection risk wherever possible.
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Lupus Claims the Life of Sasha McHale, NBA Coach Kevin McHale's Daughter
 It is with much regret and condolences to the McHale family that we bring you the news of the death of Sasha McHale, the 23-year-old daughter of Houston Rockets (NBA) coach Kevin McHale.
Ask anyone about Sasha and they all speak of her high-pitched laugh, her joyous nature, and while some knew she was battling lupus, a chronic auto-immune disease, very few outside the family's close circle realized how ill she had become, or how valiantly she battled its attack on her body. [...]
In the last year, Sasha fought lupus with every ounce of her being, cutting sugar from her diet, then gluten, and studying the background of any supplement known to reduce inflammation. Lupus assaulted her skin and joints, her lungs and her nervous system, but always she hit back even though the treatment (high-dose corticosteroids, potent cytotoxic drugs) can be more brutal than the symptoms.
Read more about the short yet full life of young Sasha. LFNC joins the entire lupus community in not only sending our condolences but in continuing our fight to end lupus with new determination, so that it is no longer able to claim victims like Sasha.
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Join Us at Our Winter Mini-Conference
Maria Dall'Era, M.D., will be headlining our conference. Dr. Dall'Era is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine and Director of the Rheumatology Clinical Research Center at the University of California, San Francisco. She is also the Director of the UCSF Lupus Clinic, UCSF Center Director of the Lupus Clinical Trials Consortium (LCTC), and Principal Investigator of the California Lupus Surveillance Project (CLSP). Her talk will focus on the latest treatment strategies and research studies on lupus and will share significant updates from the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Rheumatology to be held in Washington, D.C. in November.
Date and Time:
Tuesday, December 18, 2012, 11 am to 4 pm.
Venue:
The Women's Building, Auditorium
3543 18th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Registration fee:
$50 for nurses desiring CEU credits (5 CEU credits)
$30 for non-credit attendees
Current LFNC members are entitled to $10 off registration fee. Box lunch included.
No one will be turned away for inability to pay.
Please click here to register. You may also register by mail or fax by completing this form, or by calling us at 408-954-8600.
Funding support for this conference provided by Amgen, Inc.
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Your 2013 Calendar - with Lupus Facts - are Here! Get Yours Today!
12 Lupus Facts. 12 Adorable Puppies. 12 Months. All of them have come together to make this One Awesome Calendar! Our 2013 desk calendar includes a Lupus Fact every month, along with a picture of one of our Mascot Contest contestant puppies from our Run & Walk this year. 12 adorable four-legged contestants entered, and each of them is featured on one month.
We just got the calendars into the office, and you can order yours right now. Click here to order yours today. Each calendar is only $15, including shipping. |
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Grand Prize: A Mercedes-Benz C300. Plus Two iPads for Early Birds.
This is a great way to help out the Lupus Foundation and support our work in patient services, education and research, you can start buying tickets right away!
Ticket prices are changing a bit this year: you will be able to buy each ticket for $75, three (3) tickets for $200 and five (5) for $300. In addition to the Mercedes, participants who buy their tickets early will also have the chance to win up to two iPads! Early bird drawings will be held on December 14 and March 15.
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Lupus Patients Wanted for Online Market Research - Make $100
 Fieldwork San Francisco, a national market research firm, is conducting Online Interviews to gather the opinions of Lupus patients. There are no sales involved - the researchers are only interested in participants' opinions.
The interviews will last about 30 minutes, and participants will be compensated $100 for their time. If you would like to participate, please call 415.268.8686 and ask to speak to someone about the Health Conditions Study. When calling, please mention you were referred by the Lupus Foundation of Northern California ($50 per referral will be donated towards LFNC programs and services).
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