New hope for P sufferes

[electric_ian]

Patients suffering from an irritating skin condition have been given new hope thanks to scientists on Tyneside.
A team at Newcastle University has discovered that an ointment, dithranol, used to soothe psoriasis actually kills the cells that cause the problem.

It is believed the discovery will pave the way towards better treatments for the UK's one million sufferers.
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Ian

[Dame Flossey]

That is good news, lets hope now that our friends on here with the many forms of Skin problems also are heading towards help, when a door opens like this then perhaps the research to help us folk continues to turn up better help, hope and some kind of releif for us all.

Mo 

[stargirl]

always nice to here theres new and up comming treatments that might work for one of us thankyou for this post