Media Availability: Drug Found To Help Scleroderma Patients

... Scleroderma is a progressive condition in which fibrous tissue grows abnormally, causing the skin to thicken and harden, often disfiguring and disabling patients. In a life-threatening form of the disease known as systemic sclerosis, extra tissue also damages internal organs. Lung tissue is affected in about 80 percent of these patients, about half of whom die within 10 years as a result. [click link for full article] ...