When skincare expert Leah Chavie was diagnosed with Raynaud’s disease, it didn’t mark the end of her journey — it became the beginning of a new one. Leah Chavie, founder and ...

EDTA is an intravenous chelating agent with high affinity to divalent cations (lead, cadmium, and calcium) that may be beneficial in the treatment of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Although a large ...

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

The objective of this paper is to evaluate available evidence for each step in autoimmune encephalitis management and provide expert opinion when evidence is lacking. The paper approaches autoimmune ...

In the absence of diagnostic and pathogenetic biomarkers, diagnosis and treatment may be difficult, but recent progress has been made in the application of neuroimaging tools demonstrating nerve ...

BACKGROUND: Scleroderma or progressive systemic sclerosis is characterized by a chronic inflammatory process with proliferation of fibrous connective tissue and excessive deposition of collagen and ...

Although the effect was small, it fell within the MCID range of 2%–6% derived from studies in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and scleroderma.33 34 Our data synthesis provided some evidence of ...

Discover early autoimmune warning signs doctors miss, from unusual fatigue to distinctive pain patterns and surprising skin ...

CELEBRITY Big Brother star Trisha Goddard has opened up about a painful side effect of living with incurable stage four ...

Patients aged ≥18 years with a diagnosis of SSc (American College of Rheumatology criteria,18 including patients with other connective tissue diseases who met these criteria) of >3 years’ duration ...

Treatment practices in the U.S. show approximately 75% of diagnosed pulmonary sarcoidosis patients require treatment with ...

Background A EULAR taskforce was convened to develop recommendations for lifestyle behaviours in rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs). The aim of this paper was to review the literature on ...