A NEW Swedish study has found that menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) may be associated with an increased risk of developing ...

Naturally acquired microchimerism has recently been investigated in autoimmune diseases, including scleroderma, thyroiditis, primary biliary cirrhosis, Sjogren syndrome, systemic lupus ...

The odds of developing systemic lupus erythematosus or systemic sclerosis appear to significantly increase with the use of menopausal hormone therapy, according to data published in Rheumatology.

He then crossed the pond for a research fellowship at Johns Hopkins to study the mechanisms of the autoimmune disease scleroderma. His work focused ... training to learn how to care for patients with ...

[24] Women with moderate–severe lupus flare or stroke within the previous ... As the average age of onset of scleroderma is the early 40s, until the end of last century, most women would have ...