SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Scleroderma Research Foundation (SRF), the nation’s largest non-profit funder of scleroderma research, today announced that Sanofi will contribute the first ...

Scleroderma is an autoimmune, rheumatic, and chronic disease that affects the body by hardening connective tissue, according to the Johns Hopkins Scleroderma Center. For the almost 500,000 people in ...

Scleroderma is a chronic autoimmune disease of women. Over time, people living with scleroderma develop progressive and irreversible scarring. Scarring, called fibrosis, affects the lungs, heart and ...

The University of Michigan John Varga Lab, in collaboration with the Mayo Clinic and Northwestern researchers, published an article last year suggesting that a heavy-chain monoclonal antibody, Ab68, ...

What is the latest research on scleroderma? Find out in this collection of recent MEDLINE abstracts compiled by the editors at Medscape Nurses. Acute and chronic renal diseases remain common ...

Scleroderma, or systemic sclerosis refers to a disorder in which the skin and connective tissues of the body start to thicken and harden because of the overproduction of a protein called collagen.

Cyclophosphamide is widely used to treat severe manifestations of numerous autoimmune rheumatic diseases including systemic sclerosis. Based on recent data, immunological and inflammatory activation ...

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune disease characterized by multisystem involvement. Systemic sclerosis (SSc) or scleroderma is another rheumatic autoimmune disease that ...

Last week, in a special evening honoring John Mayer and Jeff Ross, Cool Comedy • Hot Cuisine raised more than $1.3 million for the Scleroderma Research Foundation (SRF)—the country’s first and leading ...