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“Make sure everyone with systemic sclerosis is getting screened for interstitial lung disease,” Laura Hummers, MD, ScM, clinical director of the division of rheumatology at Johns Hopkins University, and director of the Johns Hopkins Scleroderma Center, told Healio. “ILD is very common in scleroderma patients.”
All patients with newly diagnosed SSc

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“I’m sure everyone in the room has seen it in action, driving around your hometown,” John Wyatt, clinical research coordinator at the Jackie and Gene Autry Orthopedic Center at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), told reporters in a press conference on Sunday. “On my way to AAP, I saw kids flying down the road on

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