Word: scleroderma
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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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...