The Full House star, who died Sunday night at 65, worked for years to support the Scleroderma Research Foundation after his sister Gay died from the disease Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor ...

Systemic sclerosis (scleroderma) causes the body to destroy healthy tissue. It can change the appearance and texture of your skin and affect other organs. Systemic sclerosis (SS) is an autoimmune ...

Scleroderma on the face can cause symptoms that may affect your appearance, including the texture, discoloration, and elasticity of your skin. Medications, facial exercises, and dermatological ...

Kheesa J was diagnosed with scleroderma, a rare autoimmune disease. Her daughter was an infant, and doctors told her she had five years to live. Seventeen years later, she's stable and has another ...

What Are the Symptoms of Scleroderma? Scleroderma symptoms are different for each person. Your symptoms depend on the type of disease you have. The thing you’re most likely to notice first is that the ...

How Do I Know if I Have Scleroderma? If you think you have scleroderma, tell your doctor what symptoms you've noticed. In order to make a diagnosis, they'll ask you about your family's health history, ...

With scleroderma, the immune system becomes activated, damages the small blood vessels and may cause excessive buildup of fibrous connective tissue, or scar tissue, in the lungs, heart, ...

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 ...

The overall benefit of blood pressure control is best achieved by a gradual reduction in pressure (10-15 mmHg per day) until the diastolic pressure reaches 85-90 mmHg. An excessive reduction in ...

Scleroderma is an autoimmune condition that causes the skin to become tight and hard. This can change facial appearance, such as the mouth becoming smaller, and affect internal organs. With ...

Trish Rainbow-Noack knew something was seriously wrong when the skin on her hands started peeling off "like bricks". She was initially told she had lupus, then told she didn't. "I was so frustrated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Saget first supported the non-profit in 1991, and then became an outspoken advocate after his sister Gay was diagnosed with the ...