ISBN 0-9763428-0-4
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Lupus Underground
Includes:
A Reference for
Lupus
UVA1 Phototherapy
Research
1987-2003
$23.95 USA
$29.00 Canada
£13.00 UK
Published by
Hyde
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FROM LUPUS UNDERGROUND
Hugh McGrath, Jr., MD:
Lynn,
a UVA1 patient for
13
years:
Fredrick Urbach, MD:
LUPUS/UVA1
Studies/Papers
UPDATES
January 21, 2008
New
York Times Health Guide
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus:
Investigational Treatments
"UVA-1 Phototherapy:
A promising treatment uses
ultraviolet
A-1 (UVA-1) radiation, long UVA wave lengths that do not promote
sunburn
and may actually block inflammatory immune factors..."
February 14, 2008
U.S.
News & World Report
Overabundance of Immune Cells
Might
Trigger Lupus - Study spots overactivity of genes that prevent cell
death
in those
with autoimmune disease
"Researchers from Saint Louis
University report that a pile-up of
superfluous
immune cells might contribute to lupus, a finding which could point to
new therapies for the autoimmune disease."
June 5, 2006
Musculoskeletal
Report
New Treatment for Lupus
Brought
to (UVA-1) Light
"UVA-1 phototherapy can be an
effective
and safe adjuvant therapy to the traditional pharmacological therapies
in SLE patients."
March
7, 2006
Rheumatology
2006;45(6):653-655
Editorial
- Light therapy (with UVA-1) for SLE patients: Is it a good or bad idea?
2006
Lupus,
Vol. 14, No. 10, 859-861 (2005)
Elimination of anticardiolipin antibodies and cessation of cognitive
decline in a UV-A1-irradiated systemic lupus erythematosus patient
April
12, 2005
Rheumatology
2005 44(7):925-931
Ultraviolet-A1
phototherapy modulates Th1/Th2 and Tc1/Tc2 balance in
patients
with systemic lupus erythematosus
"On the
basis
of our study, UVA1 phototherapy does seem to be an effective adjuvant
in
the treatment of SLE patients."
November 11, 2004
Rheumatology.
2004;43:1402-1404
UVA1 Light Useful as
Adjuvant
Therapy for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
"A new study by Dutch researchers
has
found that UVA1 light therapy significantly decreases validated disease
activity indices in patients with moderately active systemic lupus
erythematosus
(SLE) without causing significant adverse effects."
LUPUS UNDERGROUND A Chicago reporter stricken with lupus gives himself the assignment of finding a way back on his feet. After spending nearly 2 1/2 years researching and exactly $4,934.48 on tanning equipment (that’s right, sun tanning equipment), he files this report on a long-ignored, drug-free, non-patentable, counter-intuitive therapy that actually worked -- UVA1 Phototherapy.
FROM THE INTRODUCTION
If the demonstrated potential of UVA1 light to improve the lives of lupus sufferers were more publicly known, if research concerning both benefits and risks were accurately presented, if critics were fair, if our pharmaceutical industry didn’t hold excessive power over medical research and practice...Lupus Underground would not have needed to be written. If UVA1 light didn’t alleviate fatigue, it wouldn’t have been.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Anthony DeBartolo is a Chicago-based journalist who has frequently contributed to the Chicago Tribune. His feature work has also appeared in daily newspapers across the U.S. and in Canada, including the Baltimore Sun, Chicago Sun-Times, Orlando Sun-Sentinel, Sacramento Bee, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Toronto Star.
BOOK REVIEW
from the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association's newsletter, InFocus, March 2005:"Lupus Underground, by Anthony DeBartolo, is billed as 'a patient’s case for a long-ignored drug-free non-patentable counter-intuitive therapy that actually works.' Readers of the September 2003 issue of InFocus learned of research being carried out at Louisiana State University by Hugh McGrath, M.D., in which ultraviolet A-1 light therapy was being used to treat lupus patients. DeBartolo, lupus patient and newspaper reporter, goes looking to Dr. McGrath and others for the facts behind this therapy and, in the process, finds help for his own problems. Sometimes easy to read, sometimes very technical, but largely encouraging, this is, as the author states, 'a reference for lupus UVA1 phototherapy research.' It is well referenced – and not your usual lupus book."
POST-KATRINA
BOOK UPDATE
Along with many others,
Dr. McGrath's life & work in New Orleans were severely disrupted by Hurricane Katrina. As a result, his Louisiana State University Medical School contact information published in Chapter 5, Page 53 is no longer valid.We are, however, very pleased to inform you Dr. McGrath is back at work at a new medical school.
While patients with questions regarding Dr. McGrath's work are encouraged to read this book, physicians can contact him directly at this address:
Hugh McGrath Jr., MD
Rheumatology, Department of Medicine
Tulane University Medical School
SL-57
1430 Tulane Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70112
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