Much of the research on scleroderma, a connective tissue disease that causes scarring, or fibrosis, has focused on the increased number of proteins promoting fibrosis in these patients. A Medical ...

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 ...

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LIVERPOOL -- Cardiac MRI could help provide diagnostic information about potential arrhythmogenic events among patients with scleroderma being considered for implantable cardioverter defibrillators ...

Stephanie Daniels couldn't bend down to put on her socks. She noticed the first symptoms of scleroderma about 2 1/2 years ago while attending St. Edward's University in Austin. The disease's name ...

Hooks’ journey to UAB Hospital began with what she thought was just an allergic reaction. She took some allergy medicine to try to mitigate the swelling of her face. But as the days went on, the ...

"Our goal is to provide relief and healing to patients with this terrible disease," said Dr. Bruce Riser, CEO of BLR Bio and ...

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 ...

CARLSBAD, California — In 2003, researchers asked 303 patients with systemic sclerosis (scleroderma) what bothered them most about their disease from an aesthetic standpoint: Orofacial features, such ...

Sanofi will be the inaugural partner for the Scleroderma Research Foundation’s new clinical trial initiative to advance treatments for the rare autoimmune disorder of the skin and organs. The ...

Caroline Graettinger, left, and Taitia Shelow, both of Cecil Township, have been diagnosed with scleroderma, a rare autoimmune disease that causes hardening and thickening of the skin and other organs ...