Psoriasis Page

Psoriasis is a chronic, genetic, noncontagious skin disorder that appears in many different forms and can affect any part of the body, including the nails and scalp. Psoriasis is categorized as mild, moderate, or severe, depending on the percentage of body surface involved and the impact on the sufferer's quality of life.

Saturday, August 13, 2005

New Treatments for Psoriasis

The past few years have seen an explosion in treatments for psoriasis and/or psoriatic arthritis that focus on stopping psoriasis in its tracks—not just treating the symptoms.

This chart lists drugs in development in the U.S. market for psoriasis and/or psoriatic arthritis. The treatments focus on those that are in pre-clinical stages or phase I, II, III and IV for psoriasis (click for an explanation of the different phases)—what's known in the pharmaceutical industry as the research pipeline. Information was compiled based on public information, and is as comprehensive as we understand it to be as of May 2005.