Archive for the ‘psoriasis’ Category
New Website … New Era
It’s a new era for psoriasis patients, with a variety of psoriasis treatments now making major improvement possible for most people with psoriasis. And it’s a new era for Psoriasis Cure Now, with a new website reflecting our mission to make sure these advances reach everyone with psoriasis and psoriatic Continue Reading…
Kim Kardashian continues to expose psoriasis to millions … usually for the best
Since first going public about her psoriasis in 2011, cultural phenomenon and wildly successful businesswoman Kim Kardashian West has given her psoriasis a recurring role in her family’s television show Keeping Up with the Kardashians (KUWTK), as well as in her social media messaging. Her every move is also chronicled Continue Reading…
More Than 20 Clinical Trials for Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis Currently Recruiting Patients
Before a psoriasis treatment reaches patients, it is tested, over a period of years and at great expense, at dermatology clinics and hospitals across the United States and abroad. Volunteers are recruited to participate in these clinical trials. The formats vary; one standard trial is to compare a group of Continue Reading…
Commentary: Do the impact of stress and diet on psoriasis get too much attention?
Ask a psoriasis patient whether stress affects his or her psoriasis, and the answer is almost always a resounding yes. There usually seems to be a stressful event that one can recall had happened before a psoriasis flare. And stressful times seem to make psoriasis worse. Or tell someone you Continue Reading…
Methotrexate by injection, rather than by pill, getting more attention as treatment option
Methotrexate, the decades-old psoriasis treatment still commonly prescribed for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, is getting more attention recently as evidence seems to be building that injecting methotrexate under the skin may be superior to oral administration for psoriasis patients. But as with so many other treatment issues, it is not Continue Reading…
