A devastating disease that turns tradies to stone – hardening skin, but also attacking internal organs – has emerged as a shocking threat amid skyrocketing compo claims. Welders, miners and sandstone ...

New research could lead to more targeted treatments for sufferers of a rare but debilitating auto-immune disease, a PhD student studying in Adelaide says. Scleroderma causes tightening and hardening ...

Systemic sclerosis (scleroderma) causes the body to destroy healthy tissue. It can change the appearance and texture of your skin and affect other organs. Systemic sclerosis (SS) is an autoimmune ...