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Monday 1st August 2022

SRUK supports the call on the UK Government to provide Evusheld - a preventative antibody treatment for COVID-19

Evusheld is an antibody treatment designed to prevent patients from contracting COVID-19, and can provide protection for immunocompromised and immunosuppressed people that haven’t mounted a proper response to the vaccine. SRUK is supporting the call for the UK Government to procure and provide Evusheld to patients in the UK. Find out about how you can help on this page.

Wednesday 29th June 2022

Undiagnosed & Untreated: Realities of Systemic Sclerosis in Europe Today

Thursday 17th February 2022

Plan To Protect: Charities urge PM to support more than 500,000 immunocompromised people to live alongside COVID-19

Friday 14th May 2021

Your Raynaud’s and You – Insights from SRUK’s work on the Raynaud’s App

Can you imagine a world where we could have a greater understanding of Raynaud’s? Have more information on what triggers an attack? Understand how in some cases Raynaud’s combined with other symptoms may be an early predictor of scleroderma? The Raynaud’s ResearchApp, an SRUK-led partnership with app development company Healthbit and data company D4T4, intends to do just this!

Wednesday 10th February 2021

New SRUK research reveals millions of UK adults are 'woefully unaware' of Raynaud's

Our new research reveals that nearly half of UK adults don’t know any of the signs of Raynaud’s disease despite it being as common as hay fever and affecting one-in-six people.

Friday 2nd October 2020

Joint statement on rise in COVID-19 cases in the UK

Together with our partner organisations of RAIRDA (The Rare Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases Alliance), we have released a joint statement in response to the recent rise in coronavirus cases. This is regarding the effect of the pandemic on the ongoing, continuing care of people with rare, autoimmune conditions, including scleroderma; as well as the issue of shielding.

Friday 14th February 2020

The real reason for the gender heating wars

A survey released today for Raynaud’s Awareness Month shows that 61% of women surveyed who admit to secretly adjusting the heating in their home, turn it up or on, while 56% of men who do the same acknowledge turning it down or off on the sly.

Friday 10th January 2020

SRUK Chair of Trustees is awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours List

Congratulations to our Chair of Trustees, Jeremy Pearson, who has been awarded a very well-deserved MBE in the New Year Honours List for services to medical research.

Thursday 2nd January 2020

Round-up of the year's top SRUK News stories

To close out the decade, we shared our 19 most popular stories from 2019, building up to our most read piece of the year.

Thursday 12th December 2019

Get ready for Raynaud’s Awareness Month - February 2020

Our 2019 Raynaud’s Awareness Month in February was a great success, with over 25,000 people taking our online Raynaud’s test. We want to do even better in 2020 and we need your help.