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

When I was seven years old, I started to get itchy, flaky, inflamed skin across 90% of my body. There was no hiding it. I was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis. Psoriasis is a chronic autoimmune ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Autoimmune disease. A breakdown of the body's immune system, which defends you against infections. The immune system mistakenly attacks your own cells. This can cause an autoimmune disease like ...

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 ...

Patients with more severe psoriasis are also more likely to have uncontrolled hypertension, according to new research. Through a cross-sectional study using information collected from a medical ...