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 ...

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 ...

Fans of Bob Saget are mourning his death this week. Joining the list of celebs and fans pouring out tributes to the "Full House" TV star and comedian is the Scleroderma Research Foundation (SRF).

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 ...

Scleroderma is an autoimmune, rheumatic, and chronic disease that affects the body by hardening connective tissue, according to the Johns Hopkins Scleroderma Center. For the almost 500,000 people in ...

Bob Saget's older sister Gay died of autoimmune disease scleroderma in 1994 Bob Saget honored his late sister Gay in one of his final interviews before his death. In 1994, the beloved comedian lost ...

Two years before his death, Bob Saget quietly offered his support to a family whose 9-year-old daughter is suffering from Scleroderma, the same disease that took the life of his sister in 1994. Saget ...

AUSTIN — A group of researchers at the Hormel Institute in Austin recently published a scientific paper detailing a significant discovery in a group of diseases known as scleroderma. "Centromere ...

Researchers report early success with using an existing rheumatoid arthritis (RA) drug to treat systemic sclerosis, a rare but potentially devastating autoimmune condition. The disease, a subset of ...

Researchers have shown that supporting cells called fibroblasts, long viewed as uniform background players, are in fact extremely varied and vital. A subset of these cells, according to the study, may ...

Scientists have found a new piece in the puzzle that explains why B cells self-react in autoimmune disease—and, with it, a potential new treatment strategy. In an article published Sept. 29 in the ...

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