HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (WLS) -- A group of women did not wear makeup Sunday and they posted selfies to prove it to raise awareness about a deadly skin disease effecting thousands of men and women. "Face ...

Facebook doesn’t reject many ads. But over the summer, it turned down one from Lisa Goodman-Helfand, who was trying to raise awareness of scleroderma. The autoimmune disease can cause hardening of the ...

Localized scleroderma, as the term denotes, is localized to the skin on the hands and face. It is characterized by slow progression and rarely transforms to the systemic type. Localized scleroderma is ...

A woman with a rare disease that causes red and purple blotches to come up across her face and body, has told of her horror and embarrassment after Facebook rejected a photo of her. Lisa ...

A grandmother has been left with the smooth, wrinkle-free face of a 40-year-old because her body produces too much collagen. Susan Johnson, 61, from Colchester in Essex has a condition called ...

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MOST Nigerians have never heard about Scleroderma. According to experts, scleroderma literally means “hard skin.” It is an uncommon autoimmune connective tissue disease that affects small blood ...

A discovery by scientists could lead to potential new treatments for breaking the cycle of tissue scarring in people with scleroderma. The concept for new therapeutic options centers on findings ...

Care of patients with Raynaud's phenomenon (95% of SSc patients) centers around education regarding keeping warm, medications, and modifications in care when pain, infection, and ulcerations occur. It ...