Have you ever had one of those days? You know, the kind where nothing seems to go right, where a dozen things have gone wrong before you’ve even left the house? OK, technically, I did leave my apartment, and came back, and left again, and came back again. And that…

The Ann Theodore Foundation and the Milken Institute are once again teaming up to offer grants worth up to $3.4 million to help spur research into sarcoidosis. “Varied perspectives and expertise are key to achieving progress in sarcoidosis research, which will then lead to better treatment,” Lisa…

When I learned that an upcoming episode of the “AiArthritis Voices 360 Talk Show” would focus on the difficulty patients have in getting diagnosed, I jumped at the chance to co-host. After all, it took me eight years to get my sarcoidosis diagnosis, starting from when I began…

Treatment with tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-a) inhibitors — which block a type of immune protein in the body — was found to ease signs of inflammation and reduce the need for corticosteroids in people with cardiac sarcoidosis in a new analysis. Safety data, meanwhile, indicated that such treatments were…

When living with a chronic health condition, challenges often seem to appear out of nowhere. After I was diagnosed with pulmonary sarcoidosis, I continued to do anything and everything I wanted to do. I rarely considered how my health might dictate my actions and abilities. Call it…

Top-line data from an ongoing Phase 2 trial testing Kinevant Sciences’ experimental therapy namilumab in adults with pulmonary sarcoidosis are expected in the second half of 2024. That’s according to a business update from Roivant Sciences, the parent company to Kinevant. Called RESOLVE-Lung (NCT05314517), the…

MRI scans of the heart may help in predicting the risk of cardiac sarcoidosis recurring after initial successful treatment, a study reports. A greater extent of scarred heart tissue prior to treatment, in particular, was associated with a five times higher risk of relapse. The presence of sarcoidosis only…

Death rates while waiting for a lung transplant are disproportionally higher among people with pulmonary sarcoidosis than for those with other lung disorders, a U.S. study shows. “Our research shows that further consideration needs to be given to how we classify patients with sarcoidosis and how we calculate their…

The Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research (FSR) is funding a new research project that aims to find biological markers that could help identify people with sarcoidosis who are at risk of developing advanced lung disease. The work will be led by Christen Vagts, MD, an early career physician scientist…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has greenlit a month-old request by Molecure to begin a Phase 2 clinical trial of its investigational oral therapy OATD-01 in people with pulmonary sarcoidosis. The proof-of-concept study, which is ready to launch, according to Molecure, will be the first…