Category: Health

Dec. 16, 2022 — Laken Brooks, a 27-year-old PhD student at the University of Florida, has dealt with the skin condition psoriasis since she was a preteen. It’s always been a painful and difficult condition to manage, but over the past several years, Brooks has struggled even more. She suspects her psoriasis is worse thanks […]

Dec. 16, 2022 – It’s beginning to look less like an epidemic as seasonal flu activity “appears to be declining in some areas,” the CDC said this week. Declines in a few states and territories were enough to lower national activity, as measured by outpatient visits for influenza-like illness, for the second consecutive week. This […]

Dec. 16, 2022 – It’s a story perhaps more appropriate for Halloween than the festive holiday season, given its troubling implications. Four Omicron subvariants of the virus that causes COVID-19 will be the most common strains going from person to person this winter, new evidence predicts. Not too dire so far, until you consider what […]

By Alice B. Gottlieb, MD, PhD, dermatologist, as told to Kristen Fischer Certain things, like your genes, can increase your risk for psoriatic arthritis. If you have a first-degree relative with psoriatic arthritis, you have 39 times the risk of developing it.  Other risks for psoriatic arthritis include psoriasis on the scalp and nails. Inverse […]

By Amber McKnight, as told to Shishira Sreenivas The first time I started to notice white flakey patches, it kind of almost burned a little bit on the back of my ear. It was March 2019, and I was 24 at the time. I was working at Disney World and I had to wear a […]

By Kaleigh Wan, as told to Alexandra Benisek I’m a 26-year-old firefighter and advanced EMT from Fayetteville, GA. When I was in ninth grade, I discovered that I had psoriasis. One day, I was playing lacrosse and I noticed the back of my head was really itchy. […]

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By Rabia Malik, MD, as told to Kara Mayer Robinson Myasthenia gravis (MG) is sometimes referred to as the “snowflake disease” because no two people with MG are ever alike. This is also true for treatment response. Like other autoimmune diseases, there’s no cure for myasthenia gravis. The goal of treatment is to have more […]