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 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 8th 2010 | Psoriasis Research, Treatment | 0 Comments
The makers of voclosporin, an experimental drug being studied as a possible alternative to cyclosporin for psoriasis, organ transplant, eye disease and other uses, faced a setback last week as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) asked for an additional Phase Three study of the drug’s use in uveitis, an eye disorder. The
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August 2nd 2010 | Biologics, Psoriasis Research, Treatment | 0 Comments
A study of Remicade (infliximab) in patients who had already failed to respond adequately to a similar biologic showed that Remicade was still often successful in improving psoriasis symptoms. Remicade is a biologic treatment given by periodic IV infusions that is one in the class of TNF-alpha inhibitors that have transformed treatment for moderate
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July 23rd 2010 | Causes, Psoriasis Research, Triggers/environment, psoriatic arthritis | 0 Comments
Psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, weight and obesity are increasingly seen as linked. But sometimes, the assertions in the media get ahead of the established facts. Read what we know and what we don’t yet know about psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, weight and obesity.
July 18th 2010 | Impact of psoriasis, Psoriasis Research, psoriatic arthritis | 0 Comments
Another study has shown that psoriasis patients are at increased risk of diabetes. This one found a 40% higher rate of diabetes among psoriatic arthritis and psoriasis patients than a comparable group of people without psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis. Read more at Arthritis Today about the latest study. Read more on psoriasis
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July 16th 2010 | Biologics, Psoriasis Research, Treatment | 1 Comment
Briakinumab, an experimental psoriasis treatment from Abbott (the folks who bring us Humira [adalimumab]), continues to rack up favorable results in clinical trials. Most recently, it beat the market-leading biologic treatment Enbrel [etanercept] and of course a placebo (i.e., a fake treatment) in a 12-week test. This follows its amazing Phase Two trial
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July 12th 2010 | Children, Psoriasis Research, Treatment, psoriatic arthritis | 0 Comments
Treating psoriasis and/or psoriatic arthritis during pregnancy is often made more challenging by the limited data available for evaluating the potential impact of various treatments on the developing baby. Since 2005, the Autoimmune Diseases in Pregnancy Research Study has been looking for answers. The purpose of the research study is to find out more information
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July 9th 2010 | Psoriasis Research, Treatment, psoriatic arthritis | 0 Comments
As a Korean War-era drug that long ago became a generic, methotrexate has missed out on much of the modern clinical trial research that guides our thinking about more recent treatments. But this workhorse drug is still commonly prescribed for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis (among other diseases), making continued research on it quite valuable.
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July 9th 2010 | Causes, Psoriasis Research, Treatment, Triggers/environment | 0 Comments
There has been some suggestion over the years that there might be some linkage between fungal nail infections (“onychmycosis”) and psoriasis of the nails. In fact, the two can look similar at times.
A recent study looked at this question and found, according to the lead study author:
“no difference in the incidence of onychmycosis and
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