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6th Annual Walk 2013

6th Annual 5K Lupus Walk 2013

It's that time of the year again. Registration for Southern California's lupus awareness event is now open! Our 6th Annual 5K Lupus Walk, to be held on Sunday, July 21, 2013 promises to be another fun filled summer day with on-site entertainment and friends, family and community supporters cheering on our participants, and we are striving to get more of the community involved than ever before.

Date: Sunday, July 21, 2013

Time: 8:00 a.m. Registration Walk starts at 9:00 a.m.

Location: Shelter Island across from 2051 Shelter Island Dr., San Diego, CA 92106

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CA Progress Report

CALIFORNIA PROGRESS REPORT

Pharmacist Kickbacks Put California Patient Health at Risk

Health care cost containment is a critical issue facing every participant in the health care system. Efforts to contain costs, however, appear to have given rise to dangerous financial arrangements between health insurers and pharmacists that may be jeopardizing the health of California patients.

A loophole in California law allows your health insurer to give a financial kickback to your pharmacist every time the pharmacist switches your medication to older, cheaper, non-chemically equivalent drugs from those originally prescribed by your doctor, even without your knowledge.

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Golf Tournament

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1st Annual Charity Golf Tournament

Benefits The Lupus Foundation of Southern California

The Vineyard Golf Course at Escondido

May 18th, 2013 at 1:00pm

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Experimental Lupus Treatment One-Step Closer to Possible Approval

Thursday, May 24, 2012

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted fast-track designation for its experimental lupus treatment, Lupuzor. This status means that the review will be given priority to go faster than usual. FDA often grants this accelerated process to drugs that show promise in treating serious, life-threatening medical conditions for which no other drug either exists or works as well.

The FDA also gave its approval to the company that developed the drug, ImmuPharma to begin a Phase III clinical trial. A Phase III trial is often the last step before the company testing the drug submits an application to the FDA for it to be approved as a new treatment.

Lupuzor^TM (previously known as IPP-201101) has a novel mechanism of action aimed at adjusting the body's immune system so it does not attack healthy cells without causing adverse side effects. It has the potential to stop the progression of the disease in a substantial proportion of patients.

Check back to lupustrials.org for details when the Phase III trial is about to begin.

Thursday, 08 March 2012 00:00 Written by Administrator

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LRI Launches Bold Global Research Initiative

The Lupus Research Institute (LRI) is pleased to announce a major international initiative aimed at attracting the highest level scientists worldwide to conduct pioneering novel research to uncover the fundamental root causes of lupus, explore the potential for a cure, and transform the field of lupus research.

The initiative is being made possible via an $8 million grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies

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Lupus Research Institute Applauds Producers of TV Show House for Addressing Lupus in Men in Upcoming Season Premierelate are Plentiful and Publicly Available

NEW YORK, NY – September 2, 2011 – Lupus Research Institute (LRI) commends the producers of the popular television show House for once again raising the topic of lupus in men with the opening episode of its eighth season. Lupus diagnosis and misdiagnosis has been a recurring theme on the show with the star, Dr. Gregory House, often scolding his staff with the phrase “it's never lupus.”

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PLEASE HELP US SUPPORT HEALTH COVERAGE OF BENLYSTA® IN THE UK

Dear Lupus Supporters,

As you may have seen in the news recently, most lupus patients in the United Kingdom may not be able to afford treatment with Benlysta® as a result of a recommendation by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). We at the National Coalition of lupus and the Lupus Research Institute fought hard to advocate for the approval of Benlysta by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration here in the United States; we are equally concerned that lupus patients everywhere have the same access to the best treatment available.

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