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| Voices Of Scleroderma Book Series Is A Collection Of Stories To Inspire, Support, And Educate Patients And Medical Professionals. The Voices of Scleroderma stories were gathered from the world's leading scleroderma website, www.sclero.org. The site's medical and support content holds eminent sway with global medical consumers and experts alike, with 1200+ pages in 22 languages. Medical News Today. 03/29/07. (Also see: How to Order the Voices of Scleroderma Books, Worldwide) |
| Schizophrenia may link to inflammation. The key to schizophrenia may be found in a gene region thought to play a role in inflammation and autoimmune disorders, US researchers say. The link to inflammation might help explain why many patients with schizophrenia have autoimmune diseases. The West Australian. 03/21/07. |
IBS Drug Zelnorm Taken Off U.S. Market. FDA: Voluntary Withdrawal Due to Risk of Heart Attack, Stroke, Chest Pain. A popular drug for irritable bowel syndrome and constipation was pulled from the U.S. market Friday amid new evidence that it raises the risk of heart attacks and strokes. WebMD Medical News. March 30, 2007. (Also see: IBS) |
| More than just dry eyes. Sjogren's syndrome is often misdiagnosed. It may occur alone or with a connective tissue disease, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus or scleroderma. It affects the entire body, ranging from mild to disabling. Deseret Morning News. 03/04/07. (Also see: Sjogren's Syndrome) |
| Women with little-known disease work to raise awareness. Dana Moreno and Connie Roberts have made it their mission to educate doctors - and everyone else - about Sjogren's Syndrome, an autoimmune deficiency that debilitates through myriad avenues: the central nervous system first, then on to major organs and the lymphatic system. St. Petersburg Times, Hernando. 03/22/07. (Also see: Sjogren's Syndrome) |
| Coping with ordeal. At 13, Dominique Griffith cooked, washed and cleaned her family's home while taking care of her pregnant mother who was confined to bed after a fall at work. Then she was an energetic child, feisty and full of life, but today, less than five years later, Dominique can hardly walk and is in constant pain. Dominique suffers from a complex illness called scleroderma. The Nation Newspaper. 03/10/07. |
| Sunshine could be key to getting enough Vitamin D. Vitamin D deficiency is a common complaint in prenatal diets, but simply getting a bit more sunshine during pregnancy could hold the key to boosting productions of it. Pregnant mothers are particularly liable to develop vitamin D deficiency, and so they are at increased risk of developing autoimmune diseases. Bounty News. 03/08/07. (Also see: Pregnancy and Scleroderma and Causes of Scleroderma: Vitamin D Deficiency) |
| New
Treatments Fight Graft-versus.-Host-Disease (GVHD) In Bone
Marrow Transplant Patients. Using anti-inflammatory proteins
in combination with steroids has yielded a response rate
of over two-thirds, twice the traditional rate of complete
response. Medical News Today. 02/06/07. (Also see: Graft-versus-Host-Disease) |
| When The Body Attacks Itself. According to the National
Institutes of Health in the United States, approximately 23.5
million Americans have 24 of the 80 recognised autoimmune disorders,
making the prevalence of autoimmune disease greater than cancer
and roughly equal to heart disease. The Jamaica Observer.
01/28/07. (Also see: Causes
of Scleroderma and Autoimmune
Diseases) |
| Healing a chronic skin problem with stem cells. Physicians
at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., are leading
a national study to learn whether stem cell transplants can
correct defective immune systems in patients with scleroderma. News
8 Austin. 02/01/07. (Also see: Stem
Cell Transplants: SCOT Study) |
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