Common diseases such as psoriasis and rare conditions such as dermatomyositis can cause itchy scalp.
Within weeks Reilly had results predicting his colleague was at risk for baldness, psoriasis and glaucoma.
Private companies have also combed the data to find genes that play roles in diabetes, asthma, psoriasis and migraines.
Abbott Laboratories' Humira, for rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis and Crohn's disease, has been one of the pharmaceutical industry's biggest success stories.
Sometimes ultra-violet radiation is used to treat psoriasis and eczema.
Abbott Laboratories' ( ABT - news - people ) Humira, for rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis and Crohn's disease, has been one of the pharmaceutical industry's biggest success stories.
The biggest potential for growth will come from new uses for existing drugs, such as rheumatoid arthritis drug Remicade, which is being tested and used for psoriasis and other disease.
Amgen also sells Enbrel, a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis, and it has a handful of promising new drugs in its pipeline.
Efficacy has been shown in arthritis, psoriasis, and gout models, among others ( here).
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That's true even though Amevive, for psoriasis, and Zevalin, for lymphoma, have been small sellers for Biogen.
"We thought maybe we should look at T cells, " says Alice Gottlieb, a psoriasis expert and director of clinical research at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
Bernstein took another look at the patent Amgen was issued last week on the top-selling drug Enbrel, used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, and other immune diseases.
Biologics like Amgen's Enbrel--a protein drug for immune diseases including rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis--have become blockbusters.
The big sleeper is tasocitinib, a so-called janus kinase inhibitor, for rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis.
Biologics like Amgen's (nasdaq: AMGN - news - people ) Enbrel--a protein drug for immune diseases including rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis--have become blockbusters.
Skin care products include treatments for acne, wrinkles and psoriasis.
These include arthritis, diabetes, irritable bowel syndrome, malaria and psoriasis.
In another case, when Glaxo didn't have the expertise in-house, it created biotech company Tempero Pharmaceuticals to push forward science for treating autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis and psoriasis.
Still others were diagnosed with long-term health conditions such as Crohn's disease, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis and thyroid disorders.
Also, Biogen faces heavy competition with two of its big drugs: Avonex (multiple sclerosis) and Amevive (psoriasis).
Enbrel is now in tests for two dozen other diseases, from chronic heart failure to psoriasis to Alzheimer's and even some cancers.
Its drug fights psoriasis, but Biogen, Amgen and Genentech won't quietly get out of the way.
Biogen (nasdaq: BGEN - news - people ) expects that about 1.5 million psoriasis sufferers have severe enough rashes and lesions that they might want to try drug therapy.
In tests, psoriasis disappeared in a quarter of cases and half saw an improvement.
The psoriasis market is enticing to drugmakers, and most big biotech drug companies are testing medicines that treat the disease.
Approvals for new drugs such as Stelara, which treats psoriasis, the prostate cancer drug Zytiga and the adult schizophrenia drug Invega Sustenna, showed strong sales results during the quarter, the company said.
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The newly approved psoriasis medicine, Raptiva, will battle it out with Amgen and Biogen Idec drugs.
And to top it all off, I had psoriasis that was covering almost my whole body.
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This morning, biotechnology firms Genentech and Xoma announced that they stopped testing their experimental psoriasis drug Raptiva for rheumatoid arthritis.
Just what causes T cells to malfunction in people with psoriasis isn't entirely clear, although researchers think genetic and environmental factors both play a role.
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