Actos

Diabetes Drug May Aid Psoriasis Control

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

The diabetes drug pioglitazone (Actos) significantly improved psoriasis control when added to oral acitretin (Soriatane), data from a small clinical trial demonstrated.
The combination led to a 64.2% reduction in psoriasis severity compared with 51.7% for acitretin alone, Sunil Dogra, M.D., of the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh, India, and colleagues reported [...]