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 ...

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 ...

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.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients showed no difference in skin fibrosis whether they were given low-dose oral glucocorticoids or not. One ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The classically defined diffuse subtype of juvenile systemic sclerosis demonstrates more globally severe disease ...

Systemic sclerosis—or scleroderma that affects the skin and internal organs—is one of the rarest autoimmune diseases, affecting roughly 100,000 people (primarily women) in the United States. However, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...