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

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

"Every day is a new day. And every day you wake up and you thank God for breath, but you never know what's going to happen ...

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 ...

Scleroderma is a rare, autoimmune connective tissue and rheumatic disease that primarily causes skin inflammation but can progress to other parts of the body, according to the National Institutes ...

"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.

Half of all patients with scleroderma now die of non-scleroderma-related causes, the authors noted, compared with 30% in the 1970s. "This is really good progress, which we hope to improve upon ...

Kristine has a fatal form of scleroderma that attacks her organs. "The fatality, they said it can happen probably about 10 years after you get diagnosed," Kristine said. "It's like cobwebs in my ...

HEALTH Scleroderma: The disease that Bob Saget fought to find a cure for after it took his sister’s life Scleroderma Research Foundation: 'Bob was a champion for scleroderma patients everywhere' ...

Systemic sclerosis, also known as scleroderma, remains a potentially devastating disease for which the mortality rate hasn't decreased over the past 4 decades.

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 Research Foundation Chairman Luke Evnin tells PEOPLE Bob Saget was a dedicated board member after his sister's death and spent his life raising awareness for the disease ...