Archive for November, 2006

Rhonda Fenwick, a British artist who has had psoriasis since childhood, explores issues of skin and body image in her multimedia work, which includes assemblages, camera, installations, film and text. Her work, which also includes interactive artistic events with psoriasis patients and with school children, has received funding from the (UK) Psoriasis Association. She writes:
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While Washington, DC is still evaluating the Congressional changes made by the voters on election day, the good news is that the leading Congressional advocates for psoriasis patients will be returning to the new Congress, although some of the election-produced changes create uncertainty for the psoriasis community. All four past winners of Psoriasis Cure Now‘s
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The news in this Reuters article was widely reported several weeks ago, but this is an excellent summary of the study’s findings: Psoriasis sufferers have an increased frequency of a variety of cardiovascular risk factors including diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, elevated blood cholesterol levels, and smoking, results of a study confirm. In particular, the
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