Art and hope for lupus patients
Living with lupus comes with a cocktail of pills that needs to be taken for life, rounds of medical procedures to undergo and continuous wellness checks. Management of the disease
Living with lupus comes with a cocktail of pills that needs to be taken for life, rounds of medical procedures to undergo and continuous wellness checks. Management of the disease
A finalist in the Miss Universe Jamaica 2014 pageant passed away at the age of 29 after years of battling lupus.
The family of Emmeline “Em” Aglipay Villar tried to dissuade her when the position of justice undersecretary was offered her. They knew the demands of the job would wreak havoc on her already fragile health.
It’s been exactly a year since the book “Living Better with Lupus” was launched by the Hope for Lupus Foundation. The comprehensive reference and self-help book authored by Diwa party-list Rep. Emmeline Aglipay-Villar, Dr. Evelyn Osio-Salido, Dr. Geraldine Zamora-Racaza, and Dr. Angeline Magbitang-Santiago is one of the foundation’s attempts to create awareness on this auto-immune condition that affects over a million people worldwide.
Lupus is a chronic, autoimmune disease that triggers inflammation in any part of the body: skin, joints or organs inside the body.
It was Diwa Rep. Emmeline Aglipay-Villar’s long, lonely and unrecognized battle with lupus—in which the body’s immune system goes on hyperdrive and attacks healthy cells—that spurred her to set up the Hope for Lupus Foundation. It advocates awareness and early detection of the debilitating disease.
Many people call it “the disease with a thousand faces.” Contrary to what others think, lupus is not rare; but the condition can be different from person to person.
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