WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Lupus Foundation of America (LFA) is celebrating a year of historic lupus firsts generated during 2011 that have contributed to advances in the science and medicine of lupus, improved awareness of the disease, and heightened understanding of lupus and its impact.
#1–First Lupus Treatment Approved in More than 50 Years After waiting more than five decades, people with lupus applauded the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s decision to approve BENLYSTA®, the first drug ever developed specifically to treat lupus. Benlysta is the first entry in what is expected to become an arsenal of new, safe, effective, and tolerable lupus treatments.
