Health Magazine is a monthly
magazine dedicated to health. This magazine features articles
about how to look and feel your best.
You can visit the magazine's
website at:
http://www.health.com/health/
We have written the following
email to the magazine to ask them to do an article about Lupus. We encourage all of you to write to them as well.
You can tell them your story, give them Lupus information and stats
and encourage them to cover this important topic.
Here is the magazine's contact
page:
http://www.health.com/health/talk/email
Dear Health Magazine:
I am writing to you today
to let you know about a disease that is killing and disabling thousands of
Americans every year and millions more suffer from it while the FDA
hasn't approved a new treatment in over 4 decades. That
disease is Lupus and it desperately needs the national attention your
magazine can give!
Lupus affects an estimated 1.5
million Americans, 90% of them are women. Lupus also affects
African Americans 3 times more than Caucasians. For such a common
and potentially deadly disease it is
dreadfully under publicized, misunderstood and lets just be honest,
ignored. This disease is often disabling and almost always
life altering for not only the patient, but also for their families.
It has been over 40 years since the FDA has approved a new treatment for
Lupus. That is inexcusable when the current treatments can be
just as debilitating as the disease itself.
Almost everybody has heard of
Lupus and even knows somebody who has it, but if you asked them what
it is they wouldn't know, or they would tell you something vague or
just plain false. There are a lot of misconceptions out there.
How can those 1.5 millions of Americans living with Lupus live their
best lives when so little is know about this disease?
October is National Lupus
Awareness Month and is just one example of a great time to include information
about this disease. We hope you will consider
dedicating some space to a disease that is killing and disabling
thousands of women every year! We will be asking our support network
of Lupus patients and their families to let you know how much this
story needs to be told as well. You can read my personal story
at:
http://cure4lupus.org/kendras_story.htm If you want to read more about Lupus
you can visit my website at http://Cure4Lupus.org, The Lupus Foundation of
America's website at Lupus.org or the Alliance for Lupus Research's
website at LupusResearch.org.
Kendra
Isola
Webmaster@Cure4Lupus.org
