Science news articles about 'psoriasis patients'

... status and emotional, physical and sexual well-being. It is estimated that 10 percent of psoriasis patients have contemplated suicide. "As a result, it is a necessity to provide patients with access ...

Doctors tout drugs called biologics during Psoriasis Awareness Month

... Eventually, we hope to be able target treatments to psoriasis patients based on the genetic alterations that have contributed ... signaling molecules IL-23 and NF-kappaB. A second study of 2,831 patients ...

... journals. Up to 78 percent of psoriasis patients experience nail psoriasis, which consists of irregular pitting, ... per day for six months) on the nails of 36 patients (27 men and nine women, average ...

... ," said Dr Elise Kleyn, the dermatologist who carried out the research. "We had previously shown that psoriasis patients commonly believe that they will be evaluated solely on the basis of their skin ...