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

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 ...

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 ...

What is the latest research on scleroderma? Find out in this collection of recent MEDLINE abstracts compiled by the editors at Medscape Nurses. Acute and chronic renal diseases remain common ...

Scleroderma, or systemic sclerosis refers to a disorder in which the skin and connective tissues of the body start to thicken and harden because of the overproduction of a protein called collagen.

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 ...