Archive for January, 2007

We can all learn from Lance Armstrong, and not just about athletic endurance or courage during chemo.
Lance also believes in demanding action from Congress. The psoriasis community should take note of his passion, his impatience, and his call to action:
The political ads didn’t tell voters that earlier in the year funding for cancer research
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The president of Psoriasis Cure Now will be interviewed live on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 at 5:30 p.m. PST/8:30 EST on HealthTalk Live on the internet:
Vocal patients can have a real impact on public policy, research funding and even future treatment options. Tune in to find out why patient advocacy works and how to get
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Many psoriasis patients think of a short-lived strep throat infection often bringing on a flare of psoriasis, frequently of guttate psoriasis (the avalanche of red, tear-drop shaped lesions that can follow a strep infection). But Dr. William Rosenberg, a University of Tennessee Health Science Center professor, thinks a persistent presence of group A streptococcus
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A note from Michael Paranzino of Psoriasis Cure Now:
“Today, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, is certainly not about psoriasis, and yet I can’t listen to his spectacular I Have A Dream speech without looking at the psoriasis on my own hands.
Who could forget his famous line:
I have a dream that my four little children
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It seems you can’t go a week without a story somewhere touting alternative treatments for psoriasis. This one, from a “Dr. Sarah” in the U.K., lists omega-3 fish oils, evening primrose oil, aloe vera gel, Dead Sea mineral salts/mud, Mahonia ointment (from Oregon grape extract), and Zambesia Botanica cream (from African Kigelia trees).
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We’ve added a “comments” section at the end of all our Latest News entries. Now, when you read something here and want to sound off on it, simply click on “COMMENTS” at the end of the item and tell us (and the world) what is on your mind! (Comments are moderated–please keep it
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Today’s post is frivolous, so please, before you click on these photos, please sign our new letter to Congress (click here for more info). That actually matters.
But these Reuters photos are great fun. Doctor Fish, first promoted in Turkey, then Japan, and now China and elsewhere, purport to improve psoriasis by having these
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More than 50 new Members of Congress just took office. Many of them (through no fault of their own) probably know almost nothing about the seriousness of psoriasis.
This new Congress, with its voter-provided mandate for change, is our best chance in years to reverse the longstanding psoriasis research funding shortfall.
Congress needs to hear from
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Wikipedia, the “free encyclopedia that anyone can edit,” is currently the 12th most visited web site in the world–a phenomenal success. Its listings get tons of hits.
So it is very important that its psoriasis entry be accurate. Right now, the entry is excellent in many respects, although we might quibble that fish that
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We wrote the other day about garlic being touted as a psoriasis remedy. So we may as well give banana peels equal time.
We agree with Dr. Gott that since it is “safe, cheap and harmless,” it merits a mention, if only for laughs.
But this constant drumbeat in the media of silly ‘remedies’ for psoriasis
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