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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: chronic disease + help fight + lupus  Related to the article below (Last Update: 7/1/2008)

Event Raises Awareness of Chronic Disease
WLNS, MI - Jun 9, 2008
Entertainment News from AP Dozens gathered in Old Town to raise awareness of a chronic disease. It's called scleroderma and it's similar to arthritis and ...
Cancer drug Velcade might work in lupus: study
Reuters - Jun 8, 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Velcade, a drug used to treat cancer, might also work against the chronic autoimmune disease lupus, German researchers said on Sunday. ...
ZymoGenetics and Merck Serono Initiate Second Phase 2/3 Clinical ...
WELT ONLINE, Germany - Jun 4, 2008
About Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) Lupus is a chronic inflammatory disease, where the immune system attacks the body's own tissues and organs. ...ZGEN - FRA:MRK

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CelebsForKids.ca Launches $7 Million Challenge
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Children as young as 3 years of age can develop lupus; overall about 15% of all people with lupus had their disease start in childhood. When lupus begins in ...

Southampton Press
Woman is denied adoption at town animal shelter
Southampton Press, NY - Jun 24, 2008
Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease that can be fatal. But shelter employees insist that their rejection of Ms. Cannon?s adoption application had nothing ...
Daily News staff writers
Los Angeles Daily News, CA - Jun 23, 2008
Join some well-known comedians as they help fight childhood blindness at the Stand-Up to Fight Childhood Blindness event in Agoura Hills. ...
'Absolutely amazing' crowd attends network's 'Concerts for a Cause ...
Lakeland Times, WI - Jun 5, 2008
The ISDA guidelines are also widely cited for conclusions that chronic Lyme disease is nonexistent. ISDA guidelines are treated as mandatory within the ...
Embry ships out Monday to help in Iraq
Daily Home Online, AL - Jun 12, 2008
Embry has been a licensed EMT since 1990 and worked until he was diagnosed with lupus, a chronic autoimmune disease that attacks both the body?s muscles and ...
Patient Data Analysis Report Finds More Than 75 Percent of ...
RedOrbit, TX - Jun 18, 2008
The remaining twenty-two (22%) have chronic diseases including cardiac conditions, diabetes, osteoporosis, stroke, COPD, HIV, Parkinson's disease and Lupus. ...
OTCPicks.com: OTCPicks.com Stocks to Watch for Thursday, June 12th ...
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The Company reported blinded disease-free survival data for those patients that have completed 36 months of follow-up subsequent to randomization in both ...PINK:CYHA - OTC:BVTI
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[CITATION] Health and disability self-help organizations
AH Katz, CA Maida - Working with self-help, 1990

… mucusal and skin lesions in a carrier of chronic granulomatous disease Chronic granulomatous disease … -
JGL Lovas, A Issekutz, N Walsh, RAW Miller - Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology …, 1995 - Elsevier
... he had a yellowish crusty patch on the fight parietal area of ... CM III, Gray S.
Otolaryngologic manifesta- tions of chronic granulomatous disease. ...

Can immunization precipitate connective tissue disease? Report of five cases of systemic lupus … -
SA Older, DF Battafarano, RJ Enzenauer, AM Krieg - Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism, 1999 - Elsevier
... 133 diphtheria toxoids (given intramuscularly into the fight arm). ... The development
of chronic connective tissue disease after immunization has been ...

[CITATION] Vitamin D and calcium deficits predispose for multiple chronic diseases -
M Peterlik, HS Cross - European Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2005 - Blackwell Synergy
... rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematodes, multiple ... A calcium gradient may
help this synchronization ... the development of chronic diseases by different ...

TAPPING MUTUAL AID, LAY RESOURCES IN CHRONIC DISEASE MANAGEMENT
AH KATZ - International Journal of Self Help and Self Care, 2003 - Baywood
... of all types, including self-help groups, as ... amelioration of personal social disease,
possibilities different ... have in fighting the effects of chronic disease. ...

Health psychology: psychological adjustment to chronic disease -
AL Stanton, TA Revenson, H Tennen - Annu Rev Psychol, 2007 - Annual Reviews
... while we can say that the correlates of mental and physical health in lupus vary
across ... Most adaptive tasks of chronic disease require help from others ...

[PDF] Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
HON HEAL - arthritisnm.com
... Discoid lupus erythematosus is a chronic skin disorder in ... called antibodies and specific
cells called lymphocytes that help fight and destroy ... the disease. ...
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Multiple Sclerosis, and Lupus
JAN FITE, M KOPALA - Handbook of Counseling Women, 2003 - books.google.com
... Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Multiple Sclerosis, and Lupus ... and halting
the progression of the disease. ... Beta interferons and glatiramer help to fight ...
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… resolution of Mycobacterium marinum chronic skin infection during lenalidomide therapy for chronic …
A Awais, CS Tam, D Kontoyiannis, A Ferrajoli, M … - Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2008 - UChicago Press
... in Reuters "Vitamin D may help fight tuberculosis, study ... 1], myelodysplasia [4],
and chronic lymphocytic leukemia ... he developed progressive disease, was treated ...

[DOC] The Immune System & Lupus
L Korolchuk, B Patel - education.uncc.edu
... The plasma cells secrete antibodies which help destroy antigens ... are normally those
used to treat chronic diseases. ... used to treat: Heart disease, Thyroid disease ...

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Controlling stress helps fight chronic diseases such as Lupus

- Lupus is an autoimmune disease affecting more than 5 million people around the world, and makes the immune system attack the body’s cells and tissue as if they were enemies.
- It particularly affects women of fertile age between 15 and 44 years old.
- A study conducted at the University of Granada (Universidad de Granada) shows that reducing stress in people suffering from lupus also decreases some symptoms of this disease such as inexplicable loss of weight, feeling of fatigue, continuous fever or pain and inflammation in joints.
- Patients who received psychological therapy significantly reduced their levels of stress, anxiety and depression, achieving even lower levels than those of the general population.

C@MPUS DIGITAL Lupus is an autoimmune disease which produces antibodies causing injuries to the body’s cells and tissue. It makes the immune system go out of control and the organism attack healthy cells instead of the germs on them. This pathology, which affects more than 5 million people around the world, is more developed in women of fertile age between 15 and 44 years old.
A study conducted in the Department of Medicine at the University of Granada determined that daily stress (which occurs in circumstances of little importance but of high frequency) could exacerbate the symptoms of patients suffering from lupus. In other words, controlling the stress level of those suffering from this disease allows the determination of its negative effects, such as inexplicable loss of weight, feeling of fatigue, continuous fever or pain and inflammation in joints.

This study, carried out by Dr. Nuria Navarrete Navarrete and led by researchers Juan Jiménez Alonso and María Isabel Peralta Ramírez, aimed to check the effects of stress treatment in patients suffering from lupus and with high levels of stress. A team of psychologists from the University of Granada applied a therapy to fight stress in a group of 45 patients suffering from lupus to teach them how to manage their stress to reduce the negative effects of this disease. Results showed that patients who received psychological therapy signifcantly reduced their levels of stress, anxiety and depression, achieving levels even lower than those of the general population. Furthermore, they significantly improved their quality of life both at a physical and psychological level and presented fewer skin and musclar skeletal symptoms, which usually appear in patients suffering from lupus.

Managing daily stress
Nuria Navarrete explains that lupus is a chronic disease whose course is unpredictable. Patients alternate periods of clinical stability with others in which there are symptoms and signs showing that the disease is active. In addition, there are certain factors such as stress which may cause crisis and, therefore, worsen the prognosis of the disease.

Daily stress is very common in patients suffering from lupus. Apart from the usual circumstances which produce anxiety in a healthy population, other effects include knowing that your body suffers from a chronic disease which is controllable but incurable and of uncertain prognosis that requires chronic treatment (in some cases for the rest of their life) and which have important secondary effects.

The results of this study highlighted the importance of dealing appropriately with patients suffering from lupus and, by extension, from other chronic diseases. “According to our results, attention on other psychological aspects is essential to achieve an effective global treatment of the patient”, says Navarrete. In other words, the treatment of daily stress, together with the usual pharmacological treatment, is a useful weapon when treating patients suffering from lupus. “We think that this treatment could be useful from the moment in which the disease is diagnosed, as patients may require help to manage their stress and minimise its negative effects,” says researcher Navarrete.
Part of the results of this study were published in the renowned journals “Psychosomatic Medicine” and “Revista Clínica Española”.

Reference: Nuria Navarrete Navarrete. Departament of Medicine of the University of Granada. Telephone: +34 958 020 494. Mobile: +34 687 895 461. E-mail: nurianavan@yahoo.es
 
 
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