When Amy was first diagnosed with scleroderma, she never imagined it would lead to a lifelong journey with lung disease.

Researchers have discovered a protein that may predict disease severity for a lung condition that often proves fatal to patients with scleroderma. The recent study, published in Arthritis Care & ...

Researchers found a unique immune cell plays a key role in the chronic inflammation and scarring in the lungs and skin of people with scleroderma, or systemic sclerosis. After injecting mice with ...

Medical University of South Carolina researchers show that patients with scleroderma, a connective tissue disease, and lung fibrosis, or scarring, have too little of the antifibrotic protein Cathepsin ...

DESTIN, Fla. — Detection and treatment of interstitial lung disease in systemic sclerosis calls for early and aggressive action, according to data presented at the Congress of Clinical Rheumatology ...

Systemic sclerosis is an autoimmune disease associated with inflammation and fibrosis, or scarring, that affects organs including the skin, heart, kidney and lungs. This form of scleroderma, this ...

Osteopontin is discovered as the culprit behind systemic sclerosis patients' main cause of death: lung fibrosis. However, a repurposed immunosuppressive drug may combat the pro-inflammatory protein.

After the news broke that beloved comedian Bob Saget died Sunday at 65, many of his friends and family encouraged fans to donate to the Scleroderma Research Foundation, a cause that was extremely ...

KCCI EIGHT NEWS AT FIVE. WELCOME BACK. A YEAR AGO, WE INTRODUCED YOU TO BARB HEENAN WHEN SHE DECIDED TO RIDE RAGBRAI WHILE BATTLING A CHRONIC AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE. I MEAN, TALK ABOUT A ROCK STAR, RIGHT?

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The last 3 years of drug development in scleroderma have come to represent everything that ails the current ...

Investigators have discovered that a biodegradable nanoparticle used in medical sutures could combat a rare, sometimes-fatal autoimmune disease. Researchers found that a unique macrophage, an immune ...