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Eye Care / Vision
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Dramatic Rise in Eye Injuries From BB and Paintball Guns
Popularized in movies, the phrase, “You’ll shoot your eye out,” is often repeated jokingly whenever someone...
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Health Tip: Understanding Eye Gunk
Eye gunk, known medically as rheum, is the crust that forms in the corners of your...
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Severe sleep apnea is a risk factor for diabetic eye disease that can lead to vision...
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Health Tip: Contact Lens Safety
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Are You Living with Psoriasis?
A growing knowledge of the skin disease called psoriasis is leading to greater treatment choices, including personalized therapies, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reports.
Psoriasis is an immune system disorder that causes overproduction of skin cells, resulting in scaling, pain, swelling, redness and heat. The condition affects about 7.5 million Americans.
“As we better understand the disease, researchers know more about what specific factors to target in order to develop effective treatments,” FDA dermatologist Dr. Melinda McCord said in an agency news release.
There is no cure for psoriasis, so the main goals of treatments are to stop skin cell overproduction and reduce inflammation. Current therapies include medicines applied to the skin (topical), light treatment (phototherapy), or drugs taken by mouth or given by injection.
Doctors used to take a step-by-step approach, starting patients with mild to moderate psoriasis on topical therapy. If that was ineffective, doctors moved on to phototherapy or drug treatment.