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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhqtvNObk8M In this video from Livestrong.com, learn more about scleroderma and how it is a skin disease characterized by excess collagen. Learn about the different causes, symptoms, and treatments for scleroderma in this video. Learn more about scleroderma here: https://bit.ly/learnscleroderma…

In this emotional video by the Scleroderma Foundation, Greater Chicago Chapter, learn what scleroderma is and who it affects. Join the fight against scleroderma! Learn more about scleroderma here: https://bit.ly/learnscleroderma…

In this Scleroderma Foundation Video, Dr. Lorinda Chung reviews risk factors and guidelines for screening for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in systemic sclerosis and other connective tissue diseases. She also reviews tests to diagnose and monitor PAH, as well as the currently available PAH treatment options. Learn more about scleroderma here:…

In this video by the Scleroderma Foundation, Greater Chicago Chapter, watch Michael Brown, MD, Professor of Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, talk about scleroderma and the gastrointestinal tract (GI). Read the latest scleroderma and gastrointestinal (GI) problems news here: https://bit.ly/1ZGMEEZ…

Last week’s hot topic on Scleroderma was the Gastrointestinal Problems in Scleroderma Goes Largely Unstudied, Researchers Find written by Alisa Woods. The article is focused on how the overwhelming majority of people with the skin condition scleroderma also have gastrointestinal (GI) problems. Researchers in Ontario set out to review existing literature into…

Presented by Hrayr Attarian, MD at the Scleroderma Patient Education Conference on Oct 11, 2014, learn more about Sleep in Chronic Illnesses with a Focus on Scleroderma. This presentation was hosted by the Scleroderma Foundation, Greater Chicago Chapter and the Northwestern Scleroderma Program. Learn more about scleroderma here:…

The 8th annual Food Fight for Scleroderma will take place April 10, 2016, in Chicago. In this interactive culinary competition, you get to be the food critic and also help the Scleroderma Foundation, Greater Chicago Chapter. Three popular chefs from Chicago will compete at The James Hotel in Chicago. Jason Paskewitz…

Brandi Milloy of Reality Cares TV interviews celebrities on the red carpet at Bob Saget’s Scleroderma Research Foundation Gala: 2010’s Cool Comedy – Hot Cuisine Scleroderma Research Foundation Benefit. See what Bill Bellamy and Kristin Baker, Dana Delany, Sharon Lawrence, Jeremy Piven and Judd Nelson have to say about this event.

A team of researchers at Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center developed an antiscarring paste that prevents the progression of fibrosis, representing a potential therapeutic for patients with scleroderma. The study, recently published in the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), is titled “Adenosine A2A…

In this video by the Scleroderma Foundation, learn more about muscle, joint & nerve pain in scleroderma patients. Although scleroderma patients frequently have joint pain (arthralgia), coexisting disorders also can cause anthralgias. These disorders include rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, Sjogren syndrome, fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis, hypothyroidism and others. The pattern of join…