Psoriasis Cure Now Applauds Record Government Psoriasis Research Funding

U.S. Newswire, February, 2008

To: POLITICAL EDITORS

Contact: Michael Paranzino of Psoriasis Cure Now, 1-202-253- 4863, michael@psoriasis-cure-now.org

KENSINGTON, Md., Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "Psoriasis Cure Now," a nonprofit patient advocacy group, today applauded Congress and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for delivering a record $10 million in psoriasis research funding during fiscal year 2007. Psoriasis research has traditionally been underfunded at NIH. Since 1995, NIH funding on other diseases has risen 159% (before inflation), but psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis research had been stuck between $5 and $6 million every year from FY 1995 until FY 2006, when it reached $8 million, and now $10 million in FY 2007.

"Psoriasis Cure Now was founded in 2005 because it...

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