Biologic treatment effectiveness in psoriasis Investigators sought to determine what effect the COVID-19 pandemic had on patient preference for biologic treatment for psoriasis. Concern about the risk ...

Plaque psoriasis is characterized by the formation of distinct erythematous scaly patches with clear boundaries. 1 The disease results from dysregulation of the innate and adaptive immune systems and ...

Posters presented at the American Academy of Dermatology Annual Meeting identified significant undertreatment of psoriasis and significant gaps in biologic medication treatment. This content was ...

Learn about psoriasis treatment costs, from affordable steroids to costly biologics.

Smoking, higher body mass index (BMI), and previous exposure to biologics were linked to poorer responses to biologics among patients with psoriasis, in a meta-analysis. Older age (odds ratio [OR], ...

Interleukin-23 inhibitors, prior treatment history, and Psoriasis Area and Severity Index scores may be predictive of time to disease relapse among patients with psoriasis who achieved clinical ...

For patients with plaque psoriasis who initiated treatment with a first-line biologic, the average treatment cost more than doubled from 2007 to 2021 as more patients started newer IL-17 and IL-23 ...

In a recent JAMA Dermatology study, researchers investigated the drug survival associated with effectiveness and safety of adalimumab, ustekinumab, secukinumab, ixekizumab, and guselkumab in patients ...

Discover why psoriasis treatments may lose effectiveness and explore alternatives. Learn about the potential of biologics, systemic therapies, and more to manage symptoms.

Obesity was linked to reduced long-term effectiveness of biologic therapy in patients with severe plaque psoriasis in a study, with dysregulated innate immune responses contributing to treatment ...

Researchers from the Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) ...

The review, entitled "Combining biologic and phototherapy treatments for psoriasis: safety, efficacy, and patient acceptability," was carried out by a group of researchers in the USA. They conducted ...