The Foundation is pleased to report that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has just released an Autoimmune Diseases Research Plan encouraging research into the causes, treatments, and prevention of autoimmune disease, including pemphigus. This Plan takes us a giant…
by Dr. Neal Halsey, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and Dr. Noel Rose, Autoimmune Disease Research Center, Johns Hopkins University 1. What is the risk of developing smallpox? Smallpox does not exist as a naturally occurring…
by Edward Tenner, M.D. INTRODUCTION The autoimmune bullous skin diseases, pemphigus (with major subsets pemphigus vulgaris, pemphigus foliaceus and paraneoplastic pemphigus) and the more common bullous pemphigoid (with variant disease phenotypes of cicatricial pemphigoid and gestational pemphigoid) each may have…
by Dr. David Rowe, DC, Dr. Nicholas Hall, DC The following article is one in a series we are publishing about complementary medical approaches to living with pemphigus. These treatments are not meant to replace the therapies administered by your…
By Robert Jordon, M.D.Professor and Chairman, Department of Dermatology,University of TexasHouston, Texas Historical Perspective The term pemphigus was most likely in use in the ancient world, but the first recorded instance was by Hippocrates (460-370 BC) who described pemphigoid fever…
By Nonhlanhla Khumalo, Dedee Murrell, Fenella Wojnarowska & Gudula Kirtschig Archives of Dermatology March 2002 Vol 138 pages 385-389. www.archdermatol.com This review is different from the usual type of review you might read about bullous diseases in that by being…
By Jay Glaser, M.D. Dr. Glaser is a board-certified internist, researcher and medical director at the Lancaster Ayurveda Medical Centers based in Sterling, MA. He can be reached at 978-422-5044. Answers to many questions about Ayurveda can be found on…
By Vincenzo Ruocco, M.D., Sarah Brenner, M.D., and Eleonora Ruocco, M.D., from the Department of Dermatology, 2nd University of Naples, Naples, Italy, Department of Dermatology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel. Correspondence: Vincenzo…
By Dr. Pan Meng Pemphigus is a group of organ-specific autoimmune disorders, including pemphigus vulgaris (PV), pemphigus foliaceus (PF) and paraneoplastic pemphigus (PNP). PV is the most common disease and represents this kind of potentially life-threatening disease. It is characterized…
By Peggy Clinton, BSN, Eric Hill, Wanda Rogers, RPH As many of you know, Pemphigus is an immune-mediated blistering skin disease involving the IgG autoantibodies which bind to the cell wall of the epidermis. The specific pathway of the blistering…
