Scleroderma (ISRT Conference News)

Study Shows Antibiotics Reverse Effects of Autoimmune Disease

Published in Women's Health Weekly, May 18th, 1998

A just-released Harvard Medical School study shows that a treatment already proven safe and effective for rheumatoid arthritis is equally effective for treating scleroderma.

Long considered incurable, scleroderma has no generally accepted successful treatment.

Speaking in Boston, Massachusetts, at the 6th Biennial Congress of the International Society for Rheumatic Therapies, David E. Trentham, MD, principal investigator of the study, announced that minocycline had dramatic effects on 11 patients with early but severe disease. In just one year, 82 percent of participants improved significantly, with 66 percent of those who completed the study in...

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