A new study validates the Scleroderma Skin Questionnaire (SSQ) as a reliable tool for assessing skin symptoms in systemic ...

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 ...

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 ...

Instead, Mr Nell has a disease that only a handful of people have heard of - diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis, a type of scleroderma. It can stop parts of the body from functioning properly ...

Delayed esophageal transit on scintigraphy among patients with SSc is linked to a more severe disease phenotype.

An expert in connective tissue disease–associated interstitial lung disease described best approaches for rheumatologists to be proactive in screening, diagnosing, treating, and monitoring patients.

Father-of-four Don had just turned 50 when he started to experience symptoms of scleroderma, an umbrella term relating to a group of rare diseases that affect the skin and connective tissues.

According to charity Scleroderma & Raynaud's UK (SRUK ... in their extremities constrict far more than someone without the disease. This may result in the skin changing colour from white to ...