February 24th 2009 | Biologics, Immune system | 0 Comments
Raptiva is being pulled from the US market as of June 2009 due to safety issues. **See your physician before stopping Raptiva treatment.** More info at Raptiva.com.
February 17th 2009 | Patient Stories | 0 Comments
Each month, we profile a psoriasis patient in our Psoriasis Patient Calendar. Here are some of the latest updates to that site.
Rhonda provided us a postscript to her January 2008 profile. She recently started a new treatment and is feeling great!
Janine was our January profilee. Yes, she has psoriasis but no, she
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February 11th 2009 | Psoriasis Cure Now, Psoriasis Research, Public policy issues | 0 Comments
According to the New York Times, the final stimulus bill that will be voted on and become law this week includes $10 billion over two years for medical research funding through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), thanks to Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania.
NIH funding has been stagnant for five years, and currently totals about
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February 6th 2009 | Psoriasis Cure Now, Psoriasis Research, Public policy issues | 0 Comments
“Psoriasis Cure Now,” a nonprofit patient advocacy organization, has launched a micro-Web site, www.StimulateResearch.com, to help everyday Americans interested in medical research be heard in the stimulus debate that has been dominated by powerful lobbyists and special interests. The Web site allows people to write their lawmakers urging them to make biomedical research a meaningful
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February 5th 2009 | Psoriasis Cure Now, Psoriasis Research, Public policy issues | 0 Comments
Newly released figures indicate the federal government spent just $8 million on psoriasis research in the last fiscal year, down from $10 million the previous year. This still leaves us ahead of the $5-6 million range we were stuck in for more than a decade through 2005, but shows that psoriasis
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February 5th 2009 | Psoriasis Research, Public policy issues | 0 Comments
In the next 8 days, Congress and the Administration are hoping to agree on a bill to spend as much as ONE TRILLION DOLLARS. If medical research is left out of this bill, it will be very hard to find money for medical research funding increases down the road.
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