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Scleroderma Patient in Long-Term Remission with TPE Treatment

A new case study revealed that long-term treatment with therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) led to successful symptom management and disease remission in a patient with CREST syndrome, or limited systemic scleroderma. The study, recently presented at the AABB Annual Meeting in California, is entitled “Benefit of Long-Term Therapeutic Plasma…

iBio’s Anti-Fibrotic Drug Therapy Aims to Block Disease

iBio, Inc., a biotechnology company focused on developing plant-based therapies for diseases that include scleroderma, recently presented new data on the company’s anti-fibrotic drug candidate IBIO-CFB03. The data were presented at the 2015 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) annual meeting, recently held in San Francisco, California. IBIO-CFB03 is…

miRagen Therapeutics’ Anti-Fibrosis Drug Candidate Starts Clinical Testing

miRagen Therapeutics, Inc, a biopharmaceutical company working to develop microRNA-based therapeutic agents for a range of diseases, recently announced the initiation of a Phase I clinical study assessing MRG-201, the company’s lead anti-fibrotic candidate, in healthy patients. The study has the potential to be extended to patients with cutaneous scleroderma. MRG-201…

For Scleroderma Patients with PH, phaware365 App Is Welcome Way to Share

The nonprofit association phaware is dedicated to raising global awareness of a common complication in patients with scleroderma, the chronic lung disease known as pulmonary hypertension (PH). phaware connects with innovative technologies and industry leaders to find new paths to a PH cure and, from one of these collaborations, comes a new mobile app allowing users…

Mycophenolate Mofitil Identified As Promising Scleroderma-Related Interstitial Lung Disease Treatment

New data recently presented at the 2015 American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting in San Francisco showed that mycophenolate mofitil is as efficient as cyclophosphamide for the treatment of interstitial lung disease in individuals with scleroderma. Scleroderma, or systemic sclerosis, is a chronic systemic autoimmune disease characterized by a…

Scleroderma Testimonials

What is it like living with scleroderma? This video takes a look at some of the struggles that patients face when dealing with this life altering autoimmune disease. The video features actor, Jason Alexander; Football Hall of Famer, Barry Sanders; Actor and Comedian, Mark Teich; Author and Personality,…