Psoriasis can increase skin infection risk due to effects from the condition and its treatments. Learn about potential infections, symptoms, and preventive measures.

What Is the Auspitz Sign? Auspitz sign is a distinctive mark seen when a skin plaque has been removed. Plaques (also called scales) are common in plaque psoriasis, but people with Darier′s disease and ...

Psoriasis is a condition in which the immune system, which normally protects the body from harm, reacts abnormally and causes skin cells to divide more rapidly than usual. People living with the ...

Psoriasis affecting the hands and feet can be difficult to distinguish clinically from eczema. Unfortunately, a biopsy of an area thought to be volar psoriasis is of little diagnostic value, as it is ...

Otezla (apremilast) is an oral tablet commonly used to treat plaque psoriasis in adults and children. Plaque psoriasis is an inflammatory skin condition that causes itchy, painful patches on the skin.

Risankizumab improved visible psoriasis and reduced subclinical vascular inflammation on optical coherence tomography over 52 ...

Between 20 and 30 percent of people with psoriasis eventually develop a second, more disabling problem: painful joint ...

The National Psoriasis Foundation issued a new position statement that clarifies the definition of psoriasis disease severity ...

Psoriasis is well known for causing too many skin cells on elbows, knees and across the body, but people living with psoriasis may also be at an increased risk of heart disease. Effects of overactive ...

Topical or oral corticosteroids generally cost $10 to $20 a month.

New research shows risankizumab delivers long-term psoriasis control, with OCT revealing reduced subclinical inflammation.