A marriage or near-marriage relationship that is satisfying can considerably help to ease depression in women with systemic sclerosis compared to…
Articles by Inês Martins, PhD
People with clinical manifestations that affect appearance, such as those with systemic sclerosis (SSc), are more likely to exhibit social…
Esbriet (pirfenidone) has an acceptable level of tolerability in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) associated with interstitial lung disease (ILD), and…
Systemic sclerosis may lead to the appearance of gastrointestinal (GI) lesions that resemble the stripes of a watermelon, which explains…
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is recruiting patients with systemic sclerosis-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension (SSc-PAH) to…
People with systemic sclerosis-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension (SS-PAH) were seen to have a significantly worse prognosis when treated with an endothelin receptor antagonist…
Keeping close watch over systemic sclerosis patients, at high risk for cardiovascular disease, with an implanted heart monitoring device may allow for early detection…
A Phase 2 clinical trial investigating the efficacy and safety of tocilizumab, an interleukin 6 receptor-α inhibitor, revealed a clinically significant…