ATLANTA — New research presented this week at ACR Convergence, the American College of Rheumatology’s annual meeting, shows that Black people living with systemic sclerosis may have more severe ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Black patients with systemic sclerosis had multiple poor prognostic features compared with non-Black patients, ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Paracrine, Inc., announced today the online publication (ahead of print) of the findings from the STAR I trial in Arthritis & Rheumatology Journal, the official journal of ...

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 ...

A 57-YEAR old British-Iranian woman was told by a skincare specialist that she had a "disease that turns you into stone". When Asal Shirazi was 39 she was told she had four to six months to live after ...

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 ...