Word: scleroderma
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Encouraged by these successes, drug companies are starting to turn to the lesser known autoimmune diseases. Remicade, for example, is used to alleviate the intestinal inflammation caused by Crohn's disease, and drugs against the potentially systemic disorders scleroderma and Sjogren's syndrome are well along in clinical trials. None of these treatments is a cure, of course, but anything that can put the brakes on a runaway immune system has to be considered a good start...
Encouraged by these successes, drug companies are starting to turn to the lesser-known autoimmune diseases. Remicade, for example, helps alleviate the intestinal inflammation caused by Crohn’s disease, and drugs against the potentially systemic disorders scleroderma and Sjogren’s syndrome are well along in clinical trials. None of these treatments is a cure, of course, but anything that can put the brakes on a runaway immune system has to be considered a good start...
...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 trigger the disease...
DIED. ANNE SAYRE, 74, chronicler of sexism in the sciences; of scleroderma; in Bridgewater, N.J. Sayre's 1975 book, Rosalind Franklin and DNA, accorded overdue and posthumous credit to the female British crystallographer for her crucial role in the discovery of the structure of DNA and positioned Franklin alongside her Nobel-winning male contemporaries, James Watson and Francis Crick...
Silicone breast implants have been blamed for virtually every ailment imaginable--muscle aches, joint pain, mysterious rashes, even serious autoimmune diseases like lupus and scleroderma. So it is little wonder that implant lawsuits have clogged the nation's courts and forced one manufacturer, Dow Corning, to seek pre-emptive bankruptcy. Yet many medical and legal experts have long suspected that the blame laid on implants is based on "junk science." Last week, in a bold opinion that surprised legal experts across the country, a federal district court judge in Portland, Oregon, endorsed that view. Expert testimony linking implants...