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• n  an autoimmune disease that affects the blood vessels and connective tissue; fibrous connective tissue is deposited in the skin
• n  genus of poisonous fungi having hard-skinned fruiting bodies: false truffles

• THE SKINNY New insight into scleroderma, a puzzling and life-threatening skin disease: a study suggests fetal cells that linger in the mother after she gives birth may somehow .
• Melville's pelagic Cain now helps to supply doctors with a valued treatment for at least 30 diseases, from common and crippling rheumatoid arthritis to scleroderma.
• But only a year later the restrictions were eased to permit experiments in such hard-to-treat illnesses as interstitial cystitis (a painful bladder inflammation), scleroderma (a .

• dermatosclerosis
• Scleroderma
• genus Scleroderma

News & Articles

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• Former Free Press photojournalist Steven Nickerson dies after battle with rare disease
  Former Detroit Free Press photographer Steven Nickerson has died at age 55 after a long battle with a rare autoimmune disorder known as scleroderma.
  June 12, 2013 - Detroit Free Press
• June is Scleroderma Awareness Month
  SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (ABC 4 Utah)- Scleroderma is a chronic disease where the immune system attack its own body.
  June 10, 2013 - ABC 4 Salt Lake City

Quotes

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• Montel Williams in PR Newswire (press release)
  My daughter, at five and 11 years of age, suffered from bouts of inflammatory arthritis caused by a strep infection gone wild. At the age of 39, I was diagnosed with Systemic Lupus Erythmatosus and my sister was diagnosed with Scleroderma (the most... Bergeron http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergeron&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNH89dfx8bxrS3GD5Ai6uY7GeeSYpg Canada NewsWire (press release) http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/October2007/09/c9746.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGZbzy-U04VnAfJXsXlFXVNpaGvRQ Oct 9, 2007 86641 115901 sclerosis The PPA is a concerted and effective effort to reach those who still need help. I'm going to do everything I can to get the word out. As a patient who must cope every day with the effects of multiple sclerosis, I understand only too well the...