Medically reviewed by Stella Bard, MD Key Takeaways Morning hand stiffness can be caused by conditions like osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, or carpal tunnel syndrome. Home remedies like gentle ...

University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have uncovered a possible way to prevent the dangerous hardening of skin and organs in people with systemic scleroderma, a rare autoimmune disease ...

Cyclophosphamide is widely used to treat severe manifestations of numerous autoimmune rheumatic diseases including systemic sclerosis. Based on recent data, immunological and inflammatory activation ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Injections yielded significant improvements in visual analog scale pain and Quick-DASH score, as well as skin ...

For the 300,000 Americans living with the immune disease scleroderma, better treatments can't come soon enough. The rare and sometimes fatal illness stiffens and scars tissue in organs like the lungs, ...

Ask the Experts - Respiratory Failure in Dermatomyositis I have a female patient with recently diagnosed Jo-1 antibody-positive dermatomyositis (skin rash, creatine phosphokinase [CPK] >3000 U/L, nail ...

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 ...