Zoe Karakikla-Mitsakou, Author at Lupus Europe

Kick Lupus Competition 2021 – My COVID19 Lupus Hero

This past year has been very difficult for so many people around the globe. But positives can often be found even in crises and difficult circumstances! Finding the positives and holding onto them is the spirit of Kick Lupus! With that in mind, we want to announce the Kick Lupus 2021 Competition, My Covid19 […]

National Member News – Hello from the United Kingdom!

Welcome back to our blog series on National Member News! We are so very excited about getting our National Member news out to the world, so more people can find out a lot more about what it is happening in each country and each organisation! We caught up with Paul Howard, Chief Executive Officer […]

National Member News – Hello from Cyprus!

This blog post is our second in this series; we are so excited about this blog series and getting our National Member news out to the world, so more people can find out a lot more about what it is happening in each country and each organisation! We are committed to have a dedicated […]

How to Make a Scientific Poster – Q&A with Simon Stones

We believe that patient input into scientific events, like the European Lupus Meeting or EULAR, is incredibly important. Our hope was that by watching our Webinar on “How to make a scientific poster” by Simon Stones you would get the tools and know how to create a poster for those events! Simon Stones has a […]

National Member News – Hello from Iceland!

This post marks the start of a regular blog series for Lupus Europe. We aim to have a dedicated blog with a different National Member each month. We are very excited about this blog series and getting our National Member news out to the world, so more people can find out a lot more about […]

Today is Rare Disease Day!

Today is Rare Disease Day! Lupus is a rare disease in Europe, although for those living with it, it doesn’t feel rare at all! There are estimated to be less than five in 10,000 people in Europe who are living with lupus. Having a rare disease means that most people around you don’t have any […]

An interview with a Rheumatologist on Lupus Fatigue

The lovely Petra Balážová from Slovakia has a wonderful blog called Petronela’s Journey, where she talks about healthy eating, life with lupus and so many other very interesting topics. Petra has kindly allowed us to republish one of her video interviews with rheumatologist Dr. Alessia Alunno here, on a very interesting topic; lupus fatigue. Here […]

The Hellenic League Against Rheumatism’s (ELEANA) Special Lupus Project

The Hellenic League Against Rheumatism (ELEANA) with the contribution of Mr. Michael Konstantinidis, who is the writer and the art director of the total project and of the arts community, created and coordinated a special project for Lupus. This was done with the hope that it would contribute to relieving the stigma the disease bears, […]

Lupus, Skin and COVID19

During the Pandemic various online webinars were given about the Psycho-Social Impacts of COVID-19 on Patients with Chronic Skin Conditions. Generally they showed that: Patients with chronic skin conditions (auto-immune disease related) using HQC have no higher risk of getting Covid. When using immune suppressants, patients should be more careful. When infected with Covid, consult […]

Author: Zoe Karakikla-Mitsakou