Joel Gelfand, MD, MSCE, FAAD; Peter Dehnel, MD; and Steven Feldman, MD, PhD, provide an overview of psoriasis, including diagnosis, genetic influence, and progression ...

Depending on the definition used, there are large variations in the proportion of patients identified as having moderate-to-severe psoriasis. HealthDay News — Depending on the definition used, there ...

If you’re wondering whether you have mild, moderate, or severe psoriasis, think about these three things: Body surface area: How much of your body has psoriasis? To figure this out, keep in mind that ...

An international panel of more than 30 experts has developed a consensus definition and diagnostic criteria for generalized pustular psoriasis (GPP). The new definition, published in JAMA Dermatology, ...

Moderate to severe psoriasis describes how much of your body is covered in red, scaly psoriasis patches. Moderate psoriasis covers 3% to 10% of your body. Severe psoriasis covers more than 10% of your ...

Calcineurin inhibitors are drugs that reduce the activity of the immune system and help to reduce inflammation. Coal tar preparations can reduce scales, inflammation and itchiness. They are available ...

The stigma associated with the autoimmune disease psoriasis may lead people to avoid patients who show signs of the condition, including not wanting to date, shake hands, or have people in their homes ...

Finding out that you have psoriasis can be overwhelming. Just when you’d managed to convince yourself that those angry patches of skin were just a passing inconvenience, and that giving up gluten and ...

Interleukin-23 is thought to be critical to the pathogenesis of psoriasis. We compared risankizumab (BI 655066), a humanized IgG1 monoclonal antibody that inhibits interleukin-23 by specifically ...

Despite dramatic treatment advances in recent years, the dermatology community has lacked a unified definition for what remission means in plaque psoriasis. Now, a multistage Delphi consensus process ...