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Keep Beating the Drum to a Lupus Cure - Fund Campaign
The 5K is over this year, but we have updates and photos and T-shirts! See the photos (find yourself?), and buy a T-shirt for just $10 - shipping included - right here. |
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Need a Lupus Buddy?
LFNC has launched a new program - the first of its kind in lupus. Our Lupus Buddy Program pairs lupus patients based on level of experience with the disease, stage of life, and needs for the individual patients. Pairs may be individuals with more experience to individuals who are just beginning to learn about lupus, or for individuals at a similar stage of life experience, depending on what is most suited for you.
Learn more, and if you're interested, sign up here. A program coordinator will be in touch with you. Any personal and medical information necessary to make the matches are treated with the highest degree of confidentiality.
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Special Opportunity for Frontline Medical Practioners - July 30
 Are you a primary care physician, a registered nurse, a medical assistant or other medical staff or a medical student? If so, we have a special seminar for you on Thursday, July 30. The Lupus Fellows Seminar is a one-hour teaching seminar developed by the American College of Rheumatology to make frontline medical professionals aware of early signs of lupus. If you are a California Registered Nurse, you can earn 1 CEU credit for attending this FREE seminar, and other professionals will have the chance to register for an ACR online course for FREE.
The seminar will be held at our San Jose office at 2635 N First St Ste 211, San Jose, CA 95134 on Thursday, July 30 from 6-7 pm. Please email outreach@lfnc.org or call 408-954-8600 to RSVP.
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Researchers Zero in on What May be Key Biomarker for Lupus
Temple University researchers have made a key discovery that they believe could both be a cause of lupus and related to lupus disease activity (flares). The researchers say a specific community of bacteria that develop drug resistance as a group could develop a protein called "amyloid protein" which is associated with disease activity. Researchers say that further, this means that pre-existing or underlying infections can be a key trigger for lupus.
The discovery, headed by researchers Çagla Tükel and Stefania Gallucci, found that biofilm - or bacterial communities in the body - may provoke the onset of lupus.
"Basically biofilms are these bacterial communities," says Tükel, an assistant professor of microbiology and immunology at TUSM. "And when these communities are formed, they are very resistant to treatment. And actually what we found is happening with these biofilms is there is this protein called an amyloid protein. We think there could be a link between biofilm associated diseases and amyloid associated diseases."[...]
"We are thinking maybe the flares in lupus could be associated with the spikes in the curli antibodies and maybe this could be a biomarker for the disease," Tükel says. "Another thing is the mechanism - how acceleration of lupus is caused in a patient." [...]
"Our study is suggesting that underlying infections may actually trigger the disease," says Galluci.
Read the details of the study and future steps here.
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100+ Tickets Sold! Charity Car Drawing: Only 600 Tickets will be sold!
Start Your Engines. Win a 2016 Mercedes-Benz.
One great cause. One beauty of a sedan.
Only 600 tickets will be sold!
Win a Mercedes CLA-250, or $25,000 in cash.
Want it? Get in fast before all 600 tickets sell out! As of this weekend, we have already sold 100+ tickets!
Tickets: $75 per entry. $200 for three (3) or $300 for five (5)
Call us at (408) 954-8600 for the fastest way to buy your tickets or complete this form and mail or fax it to us. Remember, the more tickets you buy, the better your chances!
When is the giveaway?
As soon as the 600th ticket is sold!
The LFNC is making things more fun with our next Charity Car Drawing. We think everyone deserves a chance to win faster, so instead of dragging out the drawing a whole year, we are letting you decide how quickly you want that drawing to happen! Only 600 tickets will be sold, and you can buy as many as you like - but only until we hit the 600 mark. As soon as the 600th ticket is purchased, we will announce a date to pick the lucky winner!
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