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

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

"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 ...

Puffy hands and fingers, as well as other symptoms, can precede the “warning sign” of Raynaud’s syndrome as the initial ...

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 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.

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 ...

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 ...

Scleroderma is a rare autoimmune disease characterized by skin tightness, thickening and inflammation, but the condition can also affect the lungs, throat, heart, kidneys and intestines, among ...

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 ...

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

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