In the early 2000s, Caroline Williams started to notice tiny white flakes of skin on the shoulders of her clothes. “Dandruff,” she thought, and tried to treat it with over-the-counter remedies. But it ...

The emotional effects of psoriasis affect me almost every day, if not every day. But I also learn something new every day, like how to reduce flares, new products that are available to help cover my ...

Psoriasis can be a tricky illness to treat without help from doctors and other medical professionals. It’s a lifelong skin and immune system disease that also carries a chance of forming other health ...

It’s normal to feel sleepy with psoriasis. But that doesn’t mean you have to live a life of low energy. There are many things you can do to combat the mental and physical tiredness from your condition ...

People often describe psoriasis as raised red patches with white silvery scales. As a person of color, when my psoriasis is active, it’s a thick, purplish hue with scales that crack and bleed. I itch ...

Psoriasis is a chronic disease where your immune system becomes overactive and makes skin cells too quickly. As these cells build up, they form psoriasis plaques, thick raised patches of skin with ...

Search online for psoriasis images, and you'll mostly find photos of white people. But that doesn’t reflect the reality of this skin condition. People with dark skin get psoriasis, too. Fewer African ...

So Tom, we've known each other a long time. Well starting the journey with psoriasis was a long, long time ago. 1974 to be exact. I just remember it being frightening to hear the words, there is no ...

For me, one of the hardest things about psoriasis is that people can see it. And sometimes they have really odd reactions to it. When my disease is active, some people tell me I need to use a certain ...

When Howard Chang, 50, first learned about biologic treatments for psoriasis almost 20 years ago, he was eager to give them a try. Now they’re a mainstay in his overall treatment plan. Chang was first ...

For the last 29 years, I’ve specialized in treating patients with psoriatic disease, a chronic immune condition that includes psoriasis. I’ve been involved in studies where new drugs are being tested ...

There are better treatments for psoriatic arthritis (PsA) today than ever, but not everyone has the same access to them or gets equal care. That’s because of disparities, or preventable differences, ...