Understanding your disease
Understanding your disease can help you be more confident as you begin your treatment plan. RDS is dedicated to providing information that will help you understand your skin disease and how it will affect you, your family, and your quality of life, and provide helpful tips for improving your symptoms and coping with your disease.
About Your Disease
RDS provides dedicated information to help you better understand you skin disease.
Coping with Your Disease
RDS understands the daily physical difficulties and emotional frustrations that individuals experience from skin-related problems from rheumatologic diseases. We provide tips to help you better cope with your illness and useful resources for finding physicians to treat your disease, information on medications that might be used for your disease, and locating other resources, such as support groups, clinical trials and patient registries.
A Better Quality of Life
As a professional membership organization, we are dermatologists, physicians and researchers committed to finding better treatment and practical solutions that will ultimately improve your quality of life. We can help you:
- Find physicians dedicated to treating and studying rheumatologic diseases that affect the skin
- Get specific information to improve or better manage your symptoms
- Learn about experimental therapies or treatments
- Enroll in clinical trials
- Obtain information on the latest research
- Learn about practical care tips and suggestions
- Locate support groups
- Find national and international organizations related to rheumatologic diseases