Heenan was first diagnosed with limited systemic scleroderma at 22 years old ... "Life can be very hard, and you can't stop living," she said. "You have to continue living no matter how hard ...

Portia: Living with Scleroderma The auto-immune condition Scleroderma affects hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children, yet very few people know about the diagnosis. Monika Hilton and ...

The National Scleroderma Foundation estimates that around 300,000 people in the United States are living with scleroderma. In scleroderma, increases in inflammation lead to the thickening in the ...

Scleroderma is a rare autoimmune condition in which the regulation and deposition of collagen is impaired, causing inflammation and fibrosis (thickening and scarring of connective tissue ...

While it’s already been established that chronic inflammation from autoimmune conditions can damage the heart, many people living with these conditions ... and systemic sclerosis, also called ...

Kristina Hamilton has Diffuse Systemic Scleroderma, a rare autoimmune disease ... and one day contribute to finding a cure for others living with this disease." She continues, "We’re currently ...

Systemic sclerosis, or scleroderma, afflicts about eight in 100,000 people in Asian populations. Read more at ...