Psoriasis News

THURSDAY, April 19 (HealthDay News) -- Newer, more expensive medications don't work much better for the chronic inflammatory skin disease known as psoriasis than the standard treatment, a new study indicates. The researchers found that biologics, ...

FRIDAY, March 23 (HealthDay News) -- Although earlier studies had linked coffee to an increased risk for psoriasis, a large new study finds no such evidence. Psoriasis is a common skin condition that causes skin redness and irritation. Most people...

FRIDAY, March 16 (HealthDay News) -- People with the painful skin condition psoriasis may be at increased risk for health problems that affect the heart, an expert says. Excessive inflammation is a major feature of psoriasis. Chronic inflammation ...

FRIDAY, March 2 (HealthDay News) -- Smokers are at higher risk of developing the autoimmune skin condition psoriasis than nonsmokers, a new study finds, possibly because smoking pushes the body's immune system into overdrive, one expert suggests. ...

FRIDAY, Dec. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Topical treatment with moisturizers and emollients such as petroleum jelly should be the first line of therapy for treating psoriasis in pregnant and breast-feeding women, according to new recommendations from th...

THURSDAY, Oct. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Nearly one in four Americans with the chronic skin condition known as psoriasis may also have undiagnosed psoriatic arthritis, according to a new study. This is in addition to the 2 million people in the Unite...

FRIDAY, May 20 (HealthDay News) -- People who have psoriasis and hypertension are more likely to have more severe high blood pressure, requiring more medications to control it, a new study suggests. About 4 percent of the U.S. population has psori...

TUESDAY, Aug. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Women who drink regular beer may be increasing their risk of developing psoriasis, an autoimmune disorder affecting the skin, new findings suggest. Other options, such as light beer and wine, were not linked to...

THURSDAY, July 22 (HealthDay News) -- Severe psoriasis had left Steve Schultz feeling like an outcast. At the coffee shop where he worked, customers wondered aloud if they could catch the condition that caused his skin to redden, flake and itch li...

FRIDAY, April 23 (HealthDay News) -- The low point for country music star LeAnn Rimes came when her psoriasis got so bad she actually started bleeding onstage. "I would bleed onstage because my skin would crack. It was so horrible," she said.

SATURDAY, March 13 (HealthDay News) -- The common skin ailment psoriasis may boost the risk for heart attack, stroke and other cardiovascular woes, probably through a shared inflammatory response, a new Danish study found. "There is mounting evide...

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have long wondered why placebos -- fake medications -- sometimes help sick patients get better. Now, a new study says placebos can help psoriasis patients get by on smaller doses of a steroid drug...

FRIDAY, Sept. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Stelara (ustekinumab) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for adults with moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis. The immune system disorder is characterized by the rapid overproduction of s...

MONDAY, June 15 (HealthDay News) -- People with psoriasis face an increased risk of major cardiovascular disease and death, a new study finds. The research, which included data from a Veterans Administration medical facility study to compare 3,236...

THURSDAY, May 7 (HealthDay News) -- Home-based ultraviolet B (UVB) therapy for psoriasis is as effective and safe as outpatient phototherapy at a hospital, Dutch researchers report. Receiving UVB treatment at a hospital can be difficult for patien...

MONDAY, April 20 (HealthDay News) -- A new study lends more credence to a long-suspected connection between psoriasis, diabetes and hypertension. Researchers reporting in the April issue of the Archives of Dermatology suspect the link may have to ...

WEDNESDAY, April 8 (HealthDay News) -- The troubled psoriasis drug Raptiva is being withdrawn from the U.S. market, California-based drug maker Genentech announced Wednesday. The move comes almost two months after U.S. health officials issued a pu...

TUESDAY, March 17 (HealthDay News) -- Low-dose treatment with a drug used to treat skin psoriasis seems to help reduce nail psoriasis, according to Italian researchers. As many as 78 percent of people with psoriasis have nail psoriasis, which incl...

THURSDAY, Feb. 19 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. health officials issued a public health advisory Thursday for the psoriasis drug Raptiva after confirming that three people using the medication have died. Two of three people with confirmed cases of a ra...

THURSDAY, Feb. 12 (HealthDay News) -- The drug ustekinumab shows promise against psoriatic arthritis (PA), according to a study that included patients from 24 sites in Europe and North America. PA affects about 11 percent of patients with psoriasi...

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Galderma Laboratories' Vectical (calcitriol) ointment has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat mild-to-moderate plaque psoriasis in adults, the company said. Approval was based on tw...

TUESDAY, Jan. 27 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. researchers say they've spotted genetic "hot spots" associated with psoriasis, a finding that could lead to new drug targets and tailored treatments for the autoimmune skin disease. The team looked for DNA...

THURSDAY, Jan. 22 (HealthDay News) -- People with psoriasis can get valuable educational, psychological and social support from online communities, a U.S. study finds. It included 260 adults who took part in one of five online support groups. The ...