Bob Saget's older sister Gay died of autoimmune disease scleroderma in 1994 Bob Saget honored his late sister Gay in one of his final interviews before his death. In 1994, the beloved comedian lost ...

Bob Saget was a tireless activist for the Scleroderma Research Foundation, inspired by the death of his sister, Gay Bob Saget was all about the jokes. But his family life was anything but funny. In ...

After the news broke that beloved comedian Bob Saget died Sunday at 65, many of his friends and family encouraged fans to donate to the Scleroderma Research Foundation, a cause that was extremely ...

DANVERS, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Scleroderma Foundation, a national nonprofit that advances medical research, promotes disease awareness and provides support and education to people with ...

As Bob Saget is remembered by his friends and co-stars, one memory that stands out is his commitment to finding a cure for scleroderma, a rare disease for which Saget was the most high-profile ...

Researchers found a unique immune cell plays a key role in the chronic inflammation and scarring in the lungs and skin of people with scleroderma, or systemic sclerosis. After injecting mice with ...

Caroline Graettinger, left, and Taitia Shelow, both of Cecil Township, have been diagnosed with scleroderma, a rare autoimmune disease that causes hardening and thickening of the skin and other organs ...

New research presented this week at ACR Convergence 2022, the American College of Rheumatology's annual meeting, described a first-of-its-kind validated tool to screen for systemic ...

At first, doctors thought it was carpal tunnel syndrome. The diagnosis made sense to Shannon Abert, a high school algebra teacher whose hands couldn’t scratch out equations on the chalkboard like they ...

Q: My son's hands started to swell more than a year ago, then his fingers and forearms got real hard. Then the skin around his mouth stated to wrinkle. After that he started to have difficulty ...

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and interstitial lung disease (ILD) are the leading causes of systemic sclerosis (SSc)-associated death, and there's increasing interest in patients with the ...