41. Psoriasis and other skin ailments can cause ridges also.42. Seragen has been developing protein-based drugs to fight cancer and psoriasis . 43. Lescarden developed products with bovine cartilage to treat diseases like psoriasis and arthritis. 44. PSORIASIS _ The cause of this chronic scaling-skin disease is unknown.45. For patients with severe symptoms of the disease, psoriasis can be debilitating. 46. And a number of medications are in the works for lupus and psoriasis . 47. -- Anti-CD11a, for treatment of psoriasis MedImmune ( MEDI) 48. Data on the experimental drug Xanelim was presented at the International Psoriasis Symposium. 49. Psoriasis affects about 4.5 million people nationwide.50. The drug was given intravenously to 10 patients with moderate to severe psoriasis .
