Scleroderma is an autoimmune, rheumatic, and chronic disease that affects the body by hardening connective tissue, according to the Johns Hopkins Scleroderma Center. For the almost 500,000 people in ...

What is the latest research on scleroderma? Find out in this collection of recent MEDLINE abstracts compiled by the editors at Medscape Nurses. Acute and chronic renal diseases remain common ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Scleroderma Research Foundation (SRF), the nation’s largest non-profit funder of scleroderma research, today announced that Sanofi will contribute the first ...

AMHERST, Va. (WDBJ) - Scleroderma is an often life-threatening inflammatory and vascular disease in which the body’s immune system attacks its own tissue. In its most aggressive form, the lungs, heart ...

Q: Would you define scleroderma? What are the early symptoms? Are there any tests to diagnose it? A: Scleroderma, or hard skin, isn't a common disorder. In a metropolitan area the size of St. Louis, ...

Q: My daughter, who is 14-years-old, was diagnosed with localized scleroderma about three years ago, and I am finding out that not much is known on this disease. Could you tell be about it? Does it ...

Scleroderma, or systemic sclerosis refers to a disorder in which the skin and connective tissues of the body start to thicken and harden because of the overproduction of a protein called collagen.

Extracellular vesicles, responsible for cell-to-cell communication, might be a driver of fibrosis in systemic sclerosis, according to a recent paper in Arthritis and Rheumatology. Characterized by ...

Cyclophosphamide is widely used to treat severe manifestations of numerous autoimmune rheumatic diseases including systemic sclerosis. Based on recent data, immunological and inflammatory activation ...

Utah Scleroderma Group is holding its Salt Lake City Walk and fundraiser. Utah Scleroderma Group is holding its Salt Lake City Walk and fundraiser to help with awareness, education, and research.

Last week, in a special evening honoring John Mayer and Jeff Ross, Cool Comedy • Hot Cuisine raised more than $1.3 million for the Scleroderma Research Foundation (SRF)—the country’s first and leading ...