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 ...

Systemic sclerosis (scleroderma) causes the body to destroy healthy tissue. It can change the appearance and texture of your skin and affect other organs. Systemic sclerosis (SS) is an autoimmune ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. She was 44 in 1992 when she was diagnosed with systemic scleroderma, a disease that strikes mostly women in the prime of their ...

Scleroderma on the face can cause symptoms that may affect your appearance, including the texture, discoloration, and elasticity of your skin. Medications, facial exercises, and dermatological ...

Scleroderma is an autoimmune condition that causes the skin to become tight and hard. This can change facial appearance, such as the mouth becoming smaller, and affect internal organs. With ...

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 ...

How Do I Know if I Have Scleroderma? If you think you have scleroderma, tell your doctor what symptoms you've noticed. In order to make a diagnosis, they'll ask you about your family's health history, ...

Bob Saget was a tireless activist for the Scleroderma Research Foundation, inspired by the death of his sister, Gay Bob Saget was all about the jokes. But his family life was anything but funny. In ...

What Are the Symptoms of Scleroderma? Scleroderma symptoms are different for each person. Your symptoms depend on the type of disease you have. The thing you’re most likely to notice first is that the ...

Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors are the mainstay of therapy for patients with systemic sclerosis in scleroderma renal crisis, however mortality remains high even in the post-ACE ...

Caroline Graettinger, left, and Taitia Shelow, both of Cecil Township, have been diagnosed with scleroderma, a rare autoimmune disease that causes hardening and thickening of the skin and other organs ...

Scleroderma is a range of disorders in which the skin and connective tissues tighten and harden. It is a long-term, progressive disease. This means it gradually gets worse. Share on Pinterest ...