A Successful Trial for Lupus - How Good Is Good Enough?

N Engl J Med

From the Hospital for Special Surgery and Weill Cornell Medicine (J.E.S.) and the Colton Center for Autoimmunity, NYU School of Medicine (T.B.N.) - both in New York.

Published: January 2020

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