AMSTERDAM — For patients with diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis, an autoimmune disease for which there are few treatment options, lenabasum (JBT-101, Corbus Pharmaceuticals) shows potential, new ...

Localized scleroderma, as the term denotes, is localized to the skin on the hands and face. It is characterized by slow progression and rarely transforms to the systemic type. Localized scleroderma is ...

Following the 2017 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Annual Meeting—held in San Diego, California, November 3-8—Medscape spoke with Hospital for Special Surgery rheumatologists Dr Robert F.

Q. My sister has been diagnosed with scleroderma. She is in severe pain and swollen so badly she can't get up or down without help. Her doctor is treating her with medication so it won't attack her ...

In an analysis of systemic sclerosis patients enrolled in an Australian cohort study, those who would have been eligible for ASCT in either of two clinical trials but were treated with now-standard ...

Q: My son's hands started to swell more than a year ago, then his fingers and forearms got real hard. Then the skin around his mouth stated to wrinkle. After that he started to have difficulty ...

Kristina Hamilton, who has Diffuse Systemic Scleroderma, tied the knot with Chris Swanson on April 6 at Trinity Oaks of Matthew's Hope in Cocoa, Florida The wedding was provided at no charge to the ...

Autoimmune diseases are those which occur when the body's defence systems, designed to safeguard you, mistakenly identify its own cells, tissues, or organs as threats and attack them. This can lead to ...