Experimental Treatment Offers New Hope Against Lupus
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An experimental antibody therapy may help ease skin symptoms from the autoimmune disease lupus, a small preliminary trial suggests.
Researchers found that a higher-dose version of the drug spurred a "clinically meaningful" symptom improvement for 87% of patients after one month.
But they also stressed that the findings are based on a small "phase 1" trial—a type of study designed primarily to gauge a treatment's safety.
The safety findings were "encouraging," and there were "some hints of clinical benefit," said lead researcher Jodi Karnell, a senior director of research at Horizon Therapeutics, the company ...