Sanofi will be the inaugural partner for the Scleroderma Research Foundation’s new clinical trial initiative to advance treatments for the rare autoimmune disorder of the skin and organs. The ...

An estimated 8% of Americans live with autoimmune diseases that cause chronic inflammation and damage. Now, a breakthrough ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON _ First Bari Martz's fingers turned blue. Then she started gasping for breath, and her joints stiffened so that she couldn't even open her hands. Doctors diagnosed scleroderma, part of an ...

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 ...

Brittany Rudy, 32, has scleroderma, a life-limiting autoimmune disease. She was given six months to live when she was 20. A decade later, she graduated from college and has a life partner. This ...