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Home - OMRF News - Archives for lupus

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Researchers identify protein that may predict lupus

August 27, 2007

Certain families produce higher levels of a protein that may prime the body’s immune system to attack itself, according to a new study from the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation and the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. The findings could lead to new methods of predicting who may be at risk to develop the […]

Filed Under: Diseases, News Tagged With: lupus, registry

OMRF scientist blazes new path for predicting disease

July 30, 2007

Growing up, Judith James rarely passed up an episode of Star Trek. From her living room in Pond Creek, the future M.D./Ph.D. sat transfixed as Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise boldly went where no man had gone before. For the future physician and medical researcher, the workings of the […]

Filed Under: Diseases, News Tagged With: arthritis, autoimmune, diabetes, James, Judith, lupus, multiple sclerosis, Pond Creek, scientist-news

Patient Studies

Autoimmune diseases, where the body attacks its own tissues, rank among the most difficult of all human conditions to diagnose and treat. These puzzling illnesses can impact all areas of a person’s life, and it takes the highest level of expertise to properly treat and monitor those who live with them every day. Physicians in […]

Lupus (SLE)

Lupus (SLE) About Us Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease in which the body’s immune system confuses healthy cells with foreign substances, like viruses and bacteria, and attacks the body’s tissues and organs. According to the Lupus Foundation of America, the disease affects more than 1.5 million Americans and 5 million people worldwide. Around 90 […]

Saying Good-Bye to a Pioneer

Morris Reichlin helped build OMRF into one of the world’s leading centers for lupus research and treatment.

Special Delivery

When women with lupus want to have children, they turn to Dr. Eliza Chakravarty   It started with the bulletin board. There, on a framed, cork rectangle that now hangs on the south wall of her office, Dr. Eliza Chakravarty began pinning up photos and cards featuring the children she calls “my babies.” And most were very […]

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