Symposium highlights new emerging therapies for the treatmen...( WHAT& WHY: Lupus treatments w...)

Symposium highlights new emerging therapies for the treatment of lupus

WHAT & WHY:
Lupus treatments will be highlighted during a symposium at this year's American College of Rheumatology (ACR) annual scientific meeting in San Antonio, TX. The symposium, "The Emerging Role of Antimetabolites in the Treatment of Nonrenal Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)," will include discussion of non-FDA approved agents under investigation for the treatment of renal or nonrenal SLE.

Additional discussion topics include current FDA approved, and newer treatments for SLE, and their associated risk: benefit profiles, benefits of newer treatments over current "gold standards" of SLE therapy, the role of antimetabolites in treating renal and nonrenal SLE and the dermatologic, cardiovascular and central nervous system issues in managing patients with SLE.

Lupus statistics:

Approximately 1.4 million Americans have been diagnosed with lupus

Women are 8-10 times more likely to suffer from lupus than men

Lupus occurs primarily in women in their childbearing years

Lupus is 3 times more common in African-American women; it is also more common in women of Hispanic, Asian and Native American descent

SPEAKERS:
David M. Eisenberg, MD
Osher Institute, Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Anthony Allison, MD
SurroMed Inc.
Menlo Park, CA

Kevin G. Moder, MD
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN

Victoria Werth, MD
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

Betty Diamond, MD
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, NY

Bevra Hahn, MD
David Geffen School of Medicine

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Contact: Jen Acer
jennifer.acer@ketchum.com
732-266-4450
Ketchum
18-Oct-2004

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