And this year it received Indian regulatory approval for a treatment of the skin disease psoriasis.
After a gruesome skin disease forced Kampen to quit in 1994, Great Lakes' management floundered.
Dioxin is linked to cancer, skin disease and reproductive problems such as miscarriages and birth defects.
The drug was approved in 1998 to treat a skin disease and has never received FDA clearance for myeloma.
Scientists thought it was a skin disease, but in the mid-1980s they realized it is caused by a breakdown in the immune system.
Peter Lapsley, chief executive of the Skin Care Campaign, which represents skin disease charities, said the findings appeared to back up anecdotal evidence.
The natural thermal springs were first discovered by Prince Bladud around 863BC, who was cured from his skin disease after bathing in the waters.
It means that the doctor did three years of dedicated skin disease training at an accredited dermatology residency studying cutaneous medicine, surgery and pathology.
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Disrupt that binding and maybe the skin disease could be thwarted.
As well as foot-and-mouth, the institute also focuses on diseases in cattle, sheep, horses and pigs, including lumpy skin disease, rinderpest, African swine fever, swine vesicular disease and equine encephalosis.
Amevive is the first treatment for psoriasis, a skin disease that affects some 4 million patients in the U.S. It occurs because patients' immune systems run amok for unknown reasons, causing painful lesions and rashes.
The results of this labor are songs like "Frank's Wild Years, " a hilarious and sinister tale of a man -- Frank -- trapped in suburbia with a wife and pet dog that has a skin disease.
Aside from being able to see straight through your BVDs, it can also be used to detect defects in spacecraft insulation, find termites lurking in the walls of your apartment, and help in the diagnosis of skin disease.
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Personal touchscreen devices aren't as bad as the self-checkout screens in grocery stores, but he knows of rare cases where people contracted a serious skin disease called Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, from sharing a cell phone with bacteria on it.
Jackson had "vitiligo, a skin pigmentation disease, " Rogers said.
In the next two years Novartis will unleash a flood of new drugs for an array of other deadly or debilitating illnesses asthma, diabetes, schizophrenia, organ failure, arthritis, skin disorders and eye disease.
There are some skin illnesses associated with celiac disease.
An employee at NBC 's 30 Rockefeller Center building in New York City developed a skin-based version of the disease.
Leprosy usually becomes a chronic disease, Krahenbuhl explains, but it can be cured if it is treated with multiple drugs in the early stages, when the disease has only caused skin lesions.
U.S. Department of Agriculture inspectors are stationed at every U.S. meatpacking plant, where they look for signs of illness upon entry, conduct random samples to detect whether the meat contains antibiotics and where they inspect the organs and skin of the slaughtered pigs for disease.
Though rendered banal by years of TV ads lamenting "the heartbreak of psoriasis, " the skin disorder actually is a serious immune disease, affecting 7 million people in the U.S. In more than one-third of patients it mars 10% or more of the body surface (the palm of the hand counts as 1%).
In a cruel twist, the body's disease-fighting T cells attack healthy skin cells, misidentifying them as foreign.
But some patients are too allergic to tolerate the stuff, and others too squeamish, in the wake of mad-cow disease, to want it under their skin.
One theory is that difference in levels of vitamin D, which is produced when UV radiation hits the skin, could affect the odds of developing the disease.
Lupus is an autoimmune disease characterized by inflammation of the joints, skin, major organs and central nervous system as the immune system attacks healthy tissues and cells.
It can carry Lyme disease, a bacterial infection which can attack the skin, heart and nervous system.
Cutaneous, or an anthrax skin infection, is the most common and least severe form of the disease.
When it arrived in America it was detected within months thanks to the vigilance of the country's Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in noticing clusters of a previously rare skin cancer that is often a symptom of immune-system collapse.
The disease affects many parts of the body including the joints, the skin, kidneys, lungs, heart, and the brain.
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But, in the Cell study, Mitalipov and colleagues began with skin cells from an 8-month-old baby that had a genetic disease.
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