A research team led by The University of Osaka finds that elevated levels of certain immune cells in patients with systemic ...

Scleroderma is a multisystem disease that can affect the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, muscles, joints, skin, and underlying structures and tissues, kidneys, lungs, nerves, and heart.

Rapidly advancing skin hardness predicts internal organ involvement and internal involvement, especially of the kidneys and lungs, generally indicates a poor prognosis. [2,7] With these facts in ...

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 ...

Scleroderma impacts everyone differently. For some, it hardens and tightens the skin and outer body. For others, it also hardens tendons, muscles and internal organs, including the lungs ...

Pulmonary arterial hypertension, or PAH, is a type of high blood pressure that affects the arteries in your lungs and the right side of your heart. It’s a very serious condition that can change ...

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 ...

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.

A North East father-of-three has revealed how he takes 250 tablets a week and relies on oxygen tanks to battle a rare disease.

Queen Latifah is someone who values privacy. It is something her late mom, Rita Owens, taught her the importance of, and it’s allowed her to maintain some peace for herself in a hectic, often ...

A Des Moines woman who rode the annual trek across Iowa to raise awareness for scleroderma got what she was waiting for: a double-lung transplant.