After the news broke that beloved comedian Bob Saget died Sunday at 65, many of his friends and family encouraged fans to donate to the Scleroderma Research Foundation, a cause that was extremely ...

Researchers found a unique immune cell plays a key role in the chronic inflammation and scarring in the lungs and skin of people with scleroderma, or systemic sclerosis. After injecting mice with ...

Mycophenolate mofetil is associated with comparable treatment outcomes to methotrexate among patients with juvenile localized scleroderma.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Rheumatologists are likely to be at the “forefront” of diagnosing scleroderma skin disorders and other ...

A team of researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) has found that the molecule lysyl oxidase (LOX) plays a number of important roles in promoting skin and organ fibrosis in ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- When a rare disease strikes, getting a diagnosis can take years, enabling the disease to progress. A young woman from the Mayfair section of Philadelphia details her battle to ...

Epigenetic drugs that have shown promise in cancer trials significantly reduce scarring in the cells of patients with scleroderma, a new study shows. Results reveal that drugs that inhibit BRD4, known ...

Like many autoimmune diseases, systemic sclerosis, or scleroderma, can be a challenge to diagnose because its symptoms are varied, can range from mild to debilitating, and often resemble those of ...

Two new studies led by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) have uncovered key biological mechanisms driving systemic sclerosis (SSc), or scleroderma – a rare and often devastating ...

For the 300,000 Americans living with the immune disease scleroderma, better treatments can't come soon enough. The rare and sometimes fatal illness stiffens and scars tissue in organs like the lungs, ...

Although less common than other subtypes of systemic sclerosis (SSc), systemic sclerosis sine scleroderma (ssSSc) makes up more than 8% of SSc cases and "should not be neglected," according to a new ...

Scleroderma renal crisis is often the most challenging type of scleroderma emergency to identify promptly, according to Francesco Boin, MD, professor of medicine and director of the scleroderma center ...