Systemic sclerosis, or scleroderma, causes the hardening of skin and connective tissues. Often, the disease harms other organs, such as the heart, kidneys, lungs, and gastrointestinal tract, and it ...

Normally, your immune system fights off disease and protects your body from infection. However, when you have an autoimmune disease, your immune system mistakenly attacks healthy cells, tissues and ...

Researchers have uncovered cancer-like genetic mutations in the affected cells of people with scleroderma, pointing the way to potential new ways to treat the debilitating and sometimes fatal skin and ...

Systemic sclerosis (SSc), also referred to as scleroderma, is a rare autoimmune disease associated with vasculopathy, inflammation, and fibrosis of the skin and/or internal organs. Interstitial lung ...

Two new studies led by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) have uncovered key biological mechanisms driving systemic sclerosis (SSc), or scleroderma – a rare and often devastating ...

CREST syndrome is an autoimmune condition that affects the connective tissues. The word CREST is an acronym for the conditions five main features. CREST syndrome affects various systems in the body, ...

Systemic sclerosis (SSc), or scleroderma, is a chronic, multisystem autoimmune rheumatic disease characterized by exaggerated fibrosis, vasculopathy, and derangements of the immune system. When ...

At first, doctors thought it was carpal tunnel syndrome. The diagnosis made sense to Shannon Abert, a high school algebra teacher whose hands couldn’t scratch out equations on the chalkboard like they ...