Lupus and the cure-all hormone?
New medical treatments are at their most exciting stage when treating diseases that are as yet not very well understood by medics or scientists. When it comes to lupus, not only are symptoms diverse and can number as many as eleven discrete types, but treatments by medication are also various in their application and effect. In this article, we will consider one of the methods to improve the operation of the immune system, the target of the lupus disease. Lupus can occur in several forms, but systemic lupus erythematosus usually referred to simply as lupus is the most serious type. The symptoms of lupus are rather hard to categorize but in short, lupus is an incurable disease marked by inflammation and damage to tissue and organs throughout the body, including the joints, skin, heart, kidney and central nervous system. Lupus is an autoimmune disorder, meaning the immune system mistakenly attacks the bodys own tissue. Many believe the way to treat this hormonally based autoimmune diseas
