CREST syndrome is an autoimmune condition that affects the connective tissues. The word CREST is an acronym for the conditions five main features. CREST syndrome affects various systems in the body, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Health care providers can use our findings to help people with scleroderma to be physically active despite ...

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 rare disease in which a person's immune system begins to destroy normal, healthy tissues. (This is called an autoimmune disease.) As a result, connective tissue of the skin, lungs, ...

Ask the Experts - Respiratory Failure in Dermatomyositis I have a female patient with recently diagnosed Jo-1 antibody-positive dermatomyositis (skin rash, creatine phosphokinase [CPK] >3000 U/L, nail ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Injections yielded significant improvements in visual analog scale pain and Quick-DASH score, as well as skin ...

About 15 years ago, Tim Holt-Wilson noticed a "gradual degeneration" in the warmth of his fingers. The 66-year-old, who lives near Eye, in Suffolk, had already been diagnosed with the autoimmune ...

Scleroderma is a connective tissue disease that hardens the skin and scars the organs. Older men with scleroderma had higher estrogen levels than healthy older men or postmenopausal women with ...