October 2nd 2010 | Impact of psoriasis, Patient Stories | 0 Comments
A new campaign in Belgium is raising awareness about the difficulties people with psoriasis in their scalp can face when trying to get a haircut. At least, we think that is the topic of the campaign. The website is in French and Dutch, and the world headquarters of Psoriasis Cure Now is, sadly,
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September 23rd 2010 | Psoriasis Cure Now, Psoriasis Videos | 0 Comments
Psophisticated Style: A guide to everyday style and psoriasis™ is now live at Addressing Psoriasis™. There, you can watch videos of style guru Tim Gunn offering practical style advice about how you can live fashionably with psoriasis. You can also view highlights from the contest winners’ personal style consultations with Tim in New York
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September 20th 2010 | Get involved, Psoriasis Cure Now, Psoriasis Research, Public policy issues, psoriatic arthritis | 0 Comments
With World Psoriasis Day coming on October 29, 2010, Psoriasis Cure Now has launched the World Psoriasis Day Challenge, to nudge the day toward focusing on increasing research funding worldwide for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. Check it out and let us know what you think! Comments are open below….
September 18th 2010 | psoriatic arthritis | 0 Comments
Arthritis Today reports U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of a new treatment for severe, chronic gout that does not respond to more conventional treatments. But the treatment, called Krystexxa (pegloticase), causes “potentially life-threatening, allergic reactions” in about 5% of patients, among other side-effects, so is likely to be reserved for those whose
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September 17th 2010 | Patient Stories | 0 Comments
Yes, it’s a slow news day in the world of psoriasis. So we are bringing you the video of Shape magazine’s new cover shoot with superstar and psoriasis patient LeAnn Rimes.
In this video, Ms. Rimes does NOT discuss psoriasis; and no, we could not see any psoriasis on her. But she looks like a pretty
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September 7th 2010 | Diet, Insurance, Psoriasis Research, Triggers/environment | 8 Comments
Fitness celebrity and Bravo TV host Jackie Warner has been promoting a special workout website for psoriasis patients called Fit in Your Skin. [By the way, if you have not been there, you should check it out--good psoriasis-patient-friendly health/fitness tips there.] She recently was interviewed by USA Today in a piece that promoted
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August 19th 2010 | Patient Stories, Treatment | 0 Comments
LeAnn Rimes, our favorite singer with psoriasis, appeared on national TV recently (on America’s Got Talent), wearing…a bikini. We’re not sure if that’s a great public service message about psoriasis, but it sure is a good one for her psoriasis treatment! We are thrilled that her treatment appears to be working.
But it got
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August 16th 2010 | Treatment, UV/phototherapy | 11 Comments
Psoriasis patients have a new treatment option with Levia, a hand-held unit intended for administering ultraviolet UVB light at home. This device, recently cleared for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), targets UV light directly at psoriatic lesions, sparing healthy skin from exposure, a feature that Levia’s developer, Lerner Medical Devices, terms
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August 15th 2010 | Biologics, Psoriasis Research, Treatment | 2 Comments
Even before it received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval in September 2009, Stelara (ustekinumab) had considerable buzz in the psoriasis community. Imagine a treatment that (after two initial doses) you take just four times a year! But the early buzz was based on 12 week, and later 40 week, studies.
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August 11th 2010 | Biologics, Patient Stories, Treatment, psoriatic arthritis | 0 Comments
The golf world was stunned yesterday by the news that superstar Phil Mickelson has been battling psoriatic arthritis this summer. He announced in a press conference that a severe flare of psoriatic arthritis had left him in a state where he “couldn’t move.” Read our full report on Phil Mickelson’s psoriatic arthritis.
