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- AHA News: Not Just Bad Shoes and Sore Muscles – She Had Peripheral Artery Disease
- Scientists Find Clues to Why AstraZeneca’s Vaccine May Cause Clots
- Stressed, Exhausted: Frontline Workers Faced Big Mental Strain in Pandemic
- Supply of J&J COVID Vaccine to Drop 86 Percent Next Week
- Health Highlights: April 9, 2021
- Nearly Half of U.S. Veterans Cited ‘Personal Growth’ During Pandemic: Survey
- Obesity May Help Trigger Heavier Periods: Study
- Bright Side: Sunnier Areas Have Lower COVID-19 Death Rates
- Pandemic Has Put Many Clinical Trials on Hold
Women’s Health
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Re-focusing on Getting Fit? Heart Experts Offer These Tips
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AHA News: Not Just Bad Shoes and Sore Muscles – She Had Peripheral Artery Disease
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Scientists Find Clues to Why AstraZeneca’s Vaccine May Cause Clots
Doctors might have figured out why AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine may cause life-threatening blood clots in very...
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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.