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bad news from dermo

Question:
>So if you have any pointers to treatment centres that are OK in the States, I >would be very grateful.
Personally, I don’t have any personal experience with "treatment centers" other than my own dermatologist.  I’ve heard of folks having good experiences going to teaching hospitals with outpatient dermatology departments. [...]

cantharis treatment

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>…Now I’ve learned cantharis is also >called Spanish Fly, Mylabris or Chinese Blister >Beetle. It is used for impotence, abortion and >warts for some time.
Ancient times, mostly, except for, perhaps, the treatment of warts:    http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual_home/sec18/204.htm >We’re suffering the same disease which fuse us >together. I [...]

Vaccination injections for typhoid etc

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> There are problems on both sides.  They showed a child severely disabled on > BBC News today whose mother had caught German Measles from someone who had > not been vaccinated.
Yes, but when I looked into it I found the dangers of vaccination far exceed the benefit. [...]

Laser treatment: Anybody done it?

Question:
Our local hospital’s psoriasis treatment center (Wake Forest/Bowman Gray School of Medicine) has one of the laser machines, and I made an appointment today to see if I’m a candidate for this form of treatment. My P is not widespread, it’s concentrated on elbows and knees and legs…which I understand makes [...]

Dead Sea Experiences? From Jordan?

Question:
> <dead sea toing & froing snip>
Perhaps there is a dollar threshold below which the placebo effect won’t kick in for most people — trouble is, how do you conduct a double-blind study on that? So, we’d be left with ancedotal "proof" and to that end a trip to the [...]

Clindamycin?

Question:
>Have you noticed a difference using a systemic approach, Irv?
To Jim and others: Yes, the systemic approach was all that was reall left in the treatment ladder (for me) since about 95% of the skin was affected.  With a topical approach, there was not enough time to get all the meds [...]

Please tell me about hands !

Question:
Hello, Dr.Joe Maybe I wasn’t very presise in my posting, but I’ve had P for about 15 years. I know it’s P and nothing else. I have P on my scalp (that’s where everything started) and lots of tiny spots everywhere. But it’s never been hands and fingers. What I [...]

DNA gene mapping

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>The genome project is the first step . It will take 20 – >30 years + to see some targeted genetic therapy. >Dr. Oscar in Italy
I think you’re correct and may even be conservative. If you were confronted with a pile of half a million different aircraft parts and told [...]

Anybody know about drug patents?

Question:
Let’s say that I empirically discover that some common food item is a useful psoriasis treatment.  Say it was, tomato juice.  Would there be any point in pursuing a patent on it? Let’s see what the issues are.  I probably have at least half of them wrong, and would like to [...]

PVAC Phase II Test Progress

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>   I wouldn’t be the one to ask, but to my understanding, PVAC is the >name given to one of Corixa’s engineered proteins. Basically they >manipulated some organism to produce a protein identical/similar to >one that is used to guide our immune system. then they concentrate the >stuff (and [...]