Psoriasis Awareness Month
August 1, 2008 by Marijke Durning, RN
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
August is Psoriasis Awareness month. Psoriasis is a skin disease but it can also lead to a type of arthritis called psoriatic arthritis. As with rheumatoid arthritis psoriatic arthritis causes inflammation and pain in the joints, can can cause disability.
Here are some posts regarding psoriasis:
- Efalizumab for Psoriasis May Trigger Psoriatic Arthritis
- Press Release: FDA Committee Unanimously Recommends Approval of Ustekinumab for Plaque Psoriasis
- Press release: New Guidelines for the Management of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis
- Biologic agents for treatment of psoriasis
- Press release: Ustekinumab Phase 3 data show long-term improvement of chronic plaque psoriasis
- Press release: Humira (adalimumab) Receives FDA Approval For Moderate to Severe Chronic Plaque Psoriasis
- Etanercept promising for children with psoriasis
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I have little bits of psoriasis on my face, the plaques come and go. They are so annoying that I can’t even imagine what it would be like to have it all over, like many with psoriasis have.