Managing Chronic Inflammation With Psoriasis

The major cause of psoriasis is still under research, yet to acknowledge the exact cause of the disease. 

The doctors had considered it as an immune-mediated inflammatory disease. 

This means that inflammation is at the root of this condition.

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Frog Skin To Treat Fungal Infections in Humans

Frog skin bacteria may be an alternative drugs to treat fungal infections that are becoming more drug-resistant in humans - study.

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Natural Ways to Get Rid of Skin Tag

Mostly everybody develops a skin tag in their lifetime, although obese people are more at risk.

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Bacterial Skin Diseases

An acute febrile (feverish) disease initially recognized in the Rocky Mountain states, caused by Rickettsia rickettsii transmitted by hard-shelled (ixodid) ticks.

Occurs only in the Western Hemisphere. Anyone frequenting tick-infested areas is at risk for RMSF.

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Neurofibromatosis Type 1 Affects Grandma With 'Bubble' Benign Tumors All Over Body

A grandmother of three from Georgia, who has lived with what is known as the worst case of neurofibromatosis type 1 in America for 50 years, is finally learning to live with her appearance.

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Beautiful 28yr old Nurse Hangs Self After Severe Skin Disease

 

A health visitor with a first class honours degree in nursing was found hanged after she became tormented by her severe skin condition.

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Hypertension Medication Found to Increase Risk of Psoriasis

Psoriasis is an immune-related chronic disease that affects about 3% of the United States population.

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Pains, Itching and Signs of Skin Cancer?

The study, published online by JAMA Dermatology on July 23, 2014, found that nearly 36.9% of skin cancer lesions are accompanied by itching, while 28.2% involve pain.

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Role of Stress in Inflammatory Skin Conditions

How does stress play a role in inflammatory skin conditions? Granstein said research linking the nervous system and the skin has long been understood.

"If you interrupt the nerves' path to an area of a patient's skin affected by psoriasis, the psoriasis improves," said Granstein.

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Why You Should Be Aware Of Itchy, Painful Skin Lesions

According to research from a new study in Temple University School of Medicine found that simply by asking a patient if they’ve experienced skin itching or pain could help them improve diagnoses of skin cancer.

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Stem Cells Hold Cure For Deadly Skin Diseases

No treatment was available for people with genetic skin disorder known as epidermolysis bullosa (EB), but gene therapy may have an answer to their problem.

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Chronic itching 'may be caused by pain neurons'

Researchers from the US and China say that as well as involving the usual suspects that transmit itch signals - "itch" nerve cells or neurons - chronic itching also utilizes pain neurons, intensifying the sensation of the itch.

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A Serious Skin Reactions - Acetaminophen

The popular painkiller acetaminophen (also known as paracetamol) may cause rare but serious skin reactions, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned.

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Meth's Devastating Effects: Before And After

Methamphetamine is an illegal drug that acts as a central nervous system stimulant. Not only is the drug highly addictive, people quickly build a tolerance to it, leading them to use more and more of the substance. 

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Girl, 6, Dies After an Infectious Disease From Tick Bite

Emilee Russell a 6-year-old girl died at a Louisiana hospital Wednesday after a little more than two-week battle with what doctors suspect to have been Rocky Mountain spotted fever, a rarely seen tick-borne disease.

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