After the news broke that beloved comedian Bob Saget died Sunday at 65, many of his friends and family encouraged fans to donate to the Scleroderma Research Foundation, a cause that was extremely ...

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 ...

Kheesa J was diagnosed with scleroderma, a rare autoimmune disease. Her daughter was an infant, and doctors told her she had five years to live. Seventeen years later, she's stable and has another ...

Scleroderma on the face can cause symptoms that may affect your appearance, including the texture, discoloration, and elasticity of your skin. Medications, facial exercises, and dermatological ...

Scleroderma is an autoimmune condition that causes the skin to become tight and hard. This can change facial appearance, such as the mouth becoming smaller, and affect internal organs. With ...

With scleroderma, the immune system becomes activated, damages the small blood vessels and may cause excessive buildup of fibrous connective tissue, or scar tissue, in the lungs, heart, ...

What Are the Symptoms of Scleroderma? Scleroderma symptoms are different for each person. Your symptoms depend on the type of disease you have. The thing you’re most likely to notice first is that the ...

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 ...

Trish Rainbow-Noack knew something was seriously wrong when the skin on her hands started peeling off "like bricks". She was initially told she had lupus, then told she didn't. "I was so frustrated ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- When a rare disease strikes, getting a diagnosis can take years, enabling the disease to progress. A young woman from the Mayfair section of Philadelphia details her battle to ...

The Full House star, who died Sunday night at 65, worked for years to support the Scleroderma Research Foundation after his sister Gay died from the disease Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor ...

Scleroderma is a range of disorders in which the skin and connective tissues tighten and harden. It is a long-term, progressive disease. This means it gradually gets worse. Share on Pinterest ...