For the 300,000 Americans living with the immune disease scleroderma, better treatments can't come soon enough. The rare and ...

New 3D tissue model offers a breakthrough tool for understanding and treating scleroderma and other fibrotic diseases.

Scleroderma originates from the words "sclero," meaning hard, and "derma," meaning skin. The autoimmune rheumatic disease affects a person's connective tissue, which are fibers that provide the ...

"Scleroderma (aka systemic sclerosis) is a chronic autoimmune condition characterized by progressive thickening, tightening, and hardening of the skin," Dr. Wendy Chi, a rheumatologist for Mount ...

The star, who died suddenly on Sunday, supported the Scleroderma Research Foundation for decades Following the death of “America’s favorite dad,” Bob Saget, 65, on Sunday, many close to him ...

Alexandra Briskey, an Arizona woman whose voice was affected by scleroderma, received a life-changing double lung transplant ...

Saget spun his grief into the 1996 TV movie For Hope, a story of a woman with scleroderma (played by Dana Delany) loosely based on Gay's story. The piece helped raise awareness around the disease ...

One common symptom is the thickening and tightening of the skin, which can affect not only appearance but also mobility. Initiate treatment after visiting the expert and promptly manage this condition ...

Objective: Scleroderma is characterized by the presence of 3 predominant, yet almost mutually exclusive, antibodies: anticentromere antibody (ACA), antitopoisomerase antibody, and anti-RNA ...

Scleroderma, an auto-immune disease, causes the body to produce too much of the structural protein collagen. The sufferer's own immune system attacks healthy organs, thinking they are diseased ...

WASHINGTON, July 13 -- The lifespan for patients with scleroderma has increased significantly since the 1970s, in large measure because of a decline in deaths from renal disease. A review of data ...

"Scleroderma has several subsets, so that it's difficult to make sweeping generalizations," he says. "However, the vast majority of its manifestations are treatable, and most people do well.