February 10th 2011 | Alternative/buyer beware/natural, Health care system, Public policy issues, Treatment | 7 Comments
Are you paying too much for nonprescription psoriasis treatments? Many psoriasis patients are paying WAY too much for 2% coal tar and other common psoriasis treatments.
Post a comment below or email us [ info@psoriasis-cure-now.org ] with your most expensive NON-prescription meds; we’re going to start calling out these overpriced products and their doctor and nonprofit
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August 1st 2010 | Alternative/buyer beware/natural, Misc., psoriatic arthritis | 0 Comments
New research suggests calcium supplements, commonly used to improve bone strength and ward off osteoporosis, may be ineffective and a waste of money. Perhaps even more troubling, the study suggests that the marginal benefit to bone health from taking supplements is offset by an increased risk of heart attack. As HealthDay reported:
Their analysis
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November 20th 2008 | Alternative/buyer beware/natural | 0 Comments
Researchers in Taiwan have found that an ointment containing indigo naturalis, a traditional Chinese herbal remedy, outperformed a plain ointment in improving a spot, or plaque, of psoriasis. The test subjects applied the indigo ointment to a psoriasis plaque on one side of their body, and a plain ointment to a comparable plaque on
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September 30th 2008 | Alternative/buyer beware/natural, Health care system, Treatment | 0 Comments
From the New York Times:
Can online information be trusted? The answer, increasingly, is yes. In a study earlier this year, a report in the journal Cancer looked at 343 Web pages about breast cancer that came up in online searches. The researchers found 41 inaccurate statements on 18 sites — an error rate of 5.2
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February 29th 2008 | Alternative/buyer beware/natural, Psoriasis Research | 0 Comments
Indian food is delicious, but a highly touted spice in this food largely failed in a small trial designed to test its value in treating psoriasis.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found that despite strong scientific evidence in the laboratory demonstrating the ability of curcumin (the active ingredient in the spice turmeric)
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January 10th 2008 | Alternative/buyer beware/natural | 0 Comments
Temporary psoriasis relief from your kitchen?
Scientists recently found that psoriasis sufferers may benefit from applications of a mixture of honey, beeswax and olive oil. In a study of people suffering from psoriasis and other inflammatory skin disorders, 60 percent showed significant improvement when treated with the honey-based mixture.
Sounds messy, but our skin will taste good.
December 4th 2006 | Alternative/buyer beware/natural | 0 Comments
As if coal tar regimens and shampoos were not enough, those interested in exotic travel have a new treatment option: crude oil baths in Azerbaijan. As the New York Times reports:
Outside this improbable spa in a remote part of the former Soviet Union, oil rigs bob on a hardscrabble plain of rocks, shrubs
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