Delgocitinib vs PUVA shows comparable efficacy in chronic hand eczema with QoL benefits. Find out more about this real-world study.

PUVA, an older treatment that uses ultraviolet A light (UVA), works better than a safer, more convenient one using UVB, or ultraviolet B light, in clearing psoriasis outbreaks. By itself, ultraviolet ...

PUVA is a combination treatment which consists of psoralen taken orally or applied to the skin followed by exposure of the skin to long wave ultraviolet A (UVA) radiation. It is used for the treatment ...

In Europe, narrowband UVB (NB-UVB) has been established as the treatment of first choice in the management of moderate-to-severe psoriasis and other chronic inflammatory skin diseases. Although it has ...

Psoralens are medicines made from plants. They make your skin more sensitive to light. Methoxsalen is the most common psoralen drug. Today, doctors use psoralens with sunlamps or light booths that ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette that includes a therapeutic recommendation. A discussion of the clinical problem and the mechanism of benefit of this form of therapy follows. Major ...

We describe four pediatric transplant patients successfully treated with PUVA therapy after failure of standard immunosuppressive therapies: we used an innovative procedure where 8-MOP is diluted in a ...

Phototherapy refers to when light is used as a therapy to treat a medical condition. For thousands of years, sunlight has been known to be beneficial as a treatment for certain skin disorders. Now, ...

Q: Which doctors prescribe PUVA therapy? A: PUVA treatment is usually prescribed by skin specialists. A: Psoriasis is a common skin disease that results in the formation of thick plaques on the skin.

Patients with psoriasis exhibited superior efficacy outcomes when treated with ultraviolet (UV)-based phototherapy plus other adjuvant therapies vs UV monotherapy, with similar safety profiles shown ...

Phototherapy is the oldest form of psoriasis therapy and is still likely the most commonly used. From prescribing exposure to various wavelengths of ultraviolet light, to applying salts and tars at ...