Living with systemic lupus erythematosus and Sjögren’s syndrome is like building a house out of fragments. I gleaned that idea from Paulo Coelho’s 2024 collection of stories, “Maktub.” It’s an inspirational companion to his classic novel “The Alchemist,” published about three decades ago. The first story in “Maktub,” as presented in the two-hour Libro.fm audiobook, is about a traveler near Rio de Janeiro who inquires about […]

A new study examined the RUNX3 gene in people with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and discovered increased methylation levels (or chemical changes) of the gene in blood cells. RUNX3 gene levels could be used as a potential biomarker for diagnosing SLE. Researchers analyzed and compared levels of the RUNX3 gene in 80 people with SLE and 77 healthy people. The […]

For years, researchers and clinicians have known that lupus, an autoimmune condition, occurs in women at a rate nine times higher than in men. Some of the factors that cause the disease’s high prevalence in women have eluded discovery, but in a new study investigating the immune system processes in lupus and the X chromosome, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have […]