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For the opening keynote of the 2012 edition of the National Patient Education Conference, Jim G. Lemons, Ed.D. speaks on the topic “How to Live with Chronic Illness”, focusing on coping with the disease and improving suffering. More news on systemic sclerosis here: http://bit.ly/20sZaNS…

Tiny pieces of damaged endothelial cells, aptly called “microparticles” due to their size, can be generated in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc). These cell particulates are created from a variety of processes but are often the result of inflammation or shear stress from blood flow in narrowed arteries. Since pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is…

Scleroderma has been studied for decades through an assessment of skin fibrosis. For this study, lead author and PhD candidate Karen Patterson and Flinders University colleagues took a different approach, looking at the autoantibodies profile of scleroderma patients and their established clinical associations. The team was able to distinguish five…

Dr. Maggie Larché and Dr. Mark Larcher from Mc Master University, Ontario, speak about systemic sclerosis in a seminar pointed at demystifying the disease. Keep updated about systemic sclerosis here: http://bit.ly/20sZaNS…

New research from the University of Chicago Medical Center indicates that African-Americans with connective tissue diseases, including scleroderma, are twice as likely as Caucasians with the same medical conditions to have specific risk factors for a heart attack, stroke, or cardiovascular-related death. The study, “The Prevalence of…

In this video from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Marie Gerhard-Herman MD, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, talks about Raynaud’s phenomenon, discussing diagnosis and treatment of the condition. Raynaud’s phenomenon – often severely found in scleroderma patients – is caused when the arteries which supply blood to the skin narrow and cut…

In this video by the Arthritis National Research Foundation, listen to Anne Stevens, MD, PhD, who is one of the world’s leading researchers in scleroderma and lupus research, talk about new autoimmune treatments. Learn more about scleroderma here: http://bit.ly/learnscleroderma…

In this video by the Scleroderma Foundation, listen to Dr. Arnold Postlethwaite present about Marijuana-derived Potential Therapeutics for Scleroderma in 2014. The body produces several cannabinoids (a class of biologically active compounds also found in cannabis sativa, or marijuana) that affect the function of cells in the brain and in…

Scleroderma Foundation Tri-State Chapter’s Connect is a recorded of conference call support group meeting. Listen here to the latest Scleroderma Tri-State Connect podcasts: http://bit.ly/234mEYA Learn more about scleroderma here: http://bit.ly/learnscleroderma…

In this video from the PH Association, “learn more as patients living with and doctors who treat both PH & scleroderma explain more about the complex interaction of having both illnesses.” Learn more about scleroderma here: http://bit.ly/learnscleroderma…