HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (WLS) -- A group of women did not wear makeup Sunday and they posted selfies to prove it to raise awareness about a deadly skin disease effecting thousands of men and women. "Face ...

Facebook doesn’t reject many ads. But over the summer, it turned down one from Lisa Goodman-Helfand, who was trying to raise awareness of scleroderma. The autoimmune disease can cause hardening of the ...

Localized scleroderma, as the term denotes, is localized to the skin on the hands and face. It is characterized by slow progression and rarely transforms to the systemic type. Localized scleroderma is ...

A woman with a rare disease that causes red and purple blotches to come up across her face and body, has told of her horror and embarrassment after Facebook rejected a photo of her. Lisa ...

MOST Nigerians have never heard about Scleroderma. According to experts, scleroderma literally means “hard skin.” It is an uncommon autoimmune connective tissue disease that affects small blood ...

Care of patients with Raynaud's phenomenon (95% of SSc patients) centers around education regarding keeping warm, medications, and modifications in care when pain, infection, and ulcerations occur. It ...

A possible mechanism behind the fibrosis that occurs in scleroderma has now been identified, a mechanism, researchers say, that may one day lead to a treatment for the disease. The prognosis for ...

Scleroderma is an intricate autoimmune disease wherein one notices the hardening and tightening of the skin and connective tissues. Here, the immune system causes inflammation and injury to the cells ...