Medical News: Rising Costs -- the Real Heartbreak of Psoriasis - in Dermatology, Psoriasis from MedPage Today

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By Michael Smith, North American Correspondent, MedPage Today

The heartbreak of psoriasis used to be the disease itself. Now it's the skyrocketing cost of treatment.

From 2000 through 2008, the cost of brand-name drugs increased 66% on average, according to Vivianne Beyer, MD, and Stephen Wolverton, MD, of the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis (Beyer is currently at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis).

The cost of several of the drugs "greatly outpaced" both general inflation and the overall increase in cost of prescription medicines, the researchers reported in the January issue of Archives of Dermatology.

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