The Scleroderma Foundation is excited to announce new items for sale, just in time for the holidays. Purchase special items with the Foundation logo for yourself or a friend, and show your support for someone living with scleroderma.

New items include:

• Snuggies (fleece-style blanket with sleeves), each Snuggie comes with a free book light, and $1 from each purchase goes toward the Foundation's Scholarship Fund.  
• Fleece scarves (white)
• Zipper pulls
• Holiday greeting cards. These folded cards feature artwork by 10-year-old Ansley Lesley. Ansley is a scleroderma patient from South Carolina. Inside message reads "Seasons Greetings." Learn more about our holiday greeting card contest. 

To order these great products just in time for your holiday gift giving, visit our website or call us at (800) 722-HOPE (4673). 

Harvard's School of Public Health is working to improve the American public's health literacy, or understanding of complex medical subjects and terminology. The goal is to decrease the health disparity and communication barriers that can happen between a patient and health care professional.
Watch the video with Rima Rudd, a senior lecturer at Harvard on society, human development, and health. She discussed the importance of getting everyone in the patient care industry more tuned in to the issues of health literacy,

Today, more than 65 million caregivers in the U.S. provide a vital service to others every day. As the National Family Caregivers Association points out, these individuals ensure a better continuity of care. Caregivers are family members, friends, neighbors and others, who are familiar with each patient and know what to expect of the person being cared for, such as dietary requirements, prescribed medications prescribed and other treatments.

Learn more about National Family Caregiver Awareness Month.

Chronic pain affects millions of people in the U.S., and many of those people live with autoimmune diseases such as scleroderma. Here are 11 tips for living with chronic pain from WebMD:

1. Learn deep breathing or meditation to help with chronic pain.
2. Reduce stress in your life. Stress intensifies chronic pain.
3. Boost chronic pain relief with the natural endorphins from exercise.

Read more of the list now.

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