Medical Advices Blog

On the occasion of World Day of psoriasis, the association for the fight against psoriasis organizes conferences between patients and physicians. Objectives: To discuss the disease not easy to live and an update on current therapies, some of which are at the forefront of innovation. Interventions will take place Thursday, October 29, 2009 from 17h00 to 21h at Great Refectory of the Hotel Dieu – Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL) – 1, place the hospital in Lyon 2nd. Admission is free.
easy to live with psoriasis?

The skin is covered with patches of red, thick and rough with areas of predilection for elbows, knees and scalp. In severe cases, the plates gradually spread, sometimes even affecting the entire body. The effect unsightly, associated with itching and sometimes chronic inflammatory rheumatism (rheumatic psoriasis) psoriasis are very debilitating disease that compromises quality of life of patients. No fewer than 2 million patients are affected (2 to 3% of the population).

Innovative treatments at the Center Hospital Lyon-Sud

The Clinical Research Unit in Immunology Center Hospital Lyon-Sud (URCI-LS) was the first Lyon to propose biotherapeutics in clinical studies. The therapeutic material produced from living organisms, is a relay failure, intolerance or cons-indication to previous treatments. Biotherapies, proposed by subcutaneous injection or by infusion, designed to block the formation of lesions by targeting different stages of the inflammatory process of plaque formation.

Current studies are directed towards the search for new biological agents targeting upstream inflammatory process of psoriasis skin and rheumatic, and thus offer patients therapeutic alternatives.

Always looking for new strategies to treat the sick, the LS-URCI works in partnership with the textile industry to try to develop functional textiles containing nano-particles product suppliers. Pajamas contractor and would deliver the product at night without requiring balance sheets prior to systemic therapy or without the drudgery of daily local care.