Will there ever be a psoriasis cure?

[jiml]

It depends on how you define a "cure" ,I think that in the next ten years there will be options to eliminate many different medical problems at the point of conception , I also think that while there are a large number of people suffering from any medical problems that have the potential to generate lots of profit then more and more sophisticated drugs will be made and there is the possibility that these will continue to improve so very little in the way of side effects are produced.
As for the medical profession ,I have very little faith in the vast majority of them and take everything that they say with a large pinch of salt. This comes from personal experience and they will always stick together to protect themselves ,the NHS is not a national organisation and a large part of it is run as personal little empires .

Agreed David and if there was a cure it would be in the giant pharmaceutical companies interests not to release it because as things are psoriasis is a cash cow that just keeps giving ( profit)

[Fred]

It depends on how you define a "cure"

Peoples thoughts on a cure will vary, but I stated in the first post.

(I'm talking cure as in it's gone from the whole world and will never come back as that is a cure to me)

So that's how I define it.

[jiml]

It depends on how you define a "cure"

Peoples thoughts on a cure will vary, but I stated in the first post.

(I'm talking cure as in it's gone from the whole world and will never come back as that is a cure to me)

So that's how I define it.

MmM so that's a no then... but you can get cured from mumps but others will still get it ? Am I wrong?

[Fred]

It depends on how you define a "cure"

Peoples thoughts on a cure will vary, but I stated in the first post.

(I'm talking cure as in it's gone from the whole world and will never come back as that is a cure to me)

So that's how I define it.

MmM so that's a no then...  but you can get cured from mumps but others will still get it ? Am I wrong?

Do you actually get cured of Mumps or does it just go away, a bit like a cold they go but we get another.

Like I say Peoples thoughts will vary on what a cure is.

oxforddictionaries.com

#1 Relieve (a person or animal) of the symptoms of a disease or condition: he was cured of the disease.

#2 Eliminate (a disease or condition) with medical treatment: this technology could be used to cure diabetes.

#3 Solve (a problem): a bid to trace and cure the gearbox problems.

#4 Preserve (meat, fish, tobacco, or an animal skin) by salting, drying, or smoking: (as adjective, in combination -cured) home-cured ham.

#5 Harden (rubber, plastic, concrete, etc.) after manufacture by a chemical process such as vulcanization: the early synthetic rubbers were much more difficult to cure than natural rubber.

For me a cure is "that's it it's gone finished", to some a cure is "it's gone but it can come back again".

[ccarr06]

Interesting topic. Personally, I think there will be a 'cure', in the sense that they will come up with a treatment that will not just manage and keep psoriasis at bay, but will 'cure' a patient of it.

Do I think there will be a global eradication of psoriasis? Possibly not. Not anytime soon, at least. There is still so little known about it right now.

I do think medicine constantly evolves and new discoveries are found every day. There is no reason to think that there won't be some breakthrough that will pave the way for a cure.

Maybe I'm just being overly optimistic

[jiml]

Interesting topic. Personally, I think there will be a 'cure', in the sense that they will come up with a treatment that will not just manage and keep psoriasis at bay, but will 'cure' a patient of it.

Do I think there will be a global eradication of psoriasis? Possibly not. Not anytime soon, at least. There is still so little known about it right now.

I do think medicine constantly evolves and new discoveries are found every day. There is no reason to think that there won't be some breakthrough that will pave the way for a cure.

Maybe I'm just being overly optimistic

No I don't think its over optimistic , let's hope they do find a breakthrough, there is a lot of research going on and we must live in hope .... That one day they will be able to give us a tablet and it will go away forever. Ooh dream on Jim

[Turnedlight]

Ever is a long time.. I think probability wise there will eventually be a cure. I like to be optimistic about it!

[jiml]

Ever is a long time.. I think probability wise there will eventually be a cure. I like to be optimistic about it!

I really hope you are right I can't see any reason why there won't be one someday.... But do the pharmaceutical companies want a cure isn't it more profitable to keep feeding us expensive medication to just control it

[Turnedlight]

I was thinking it won't be the pharmaceutical companies it'll be the gene and stem cell researchers who find out perhaps how to manipulate the dna/rna or something..

[bav101]

I would love for there to be a 100% cure, I think there already is one. But the problem is pharmaceutical companies can make more money treating the symptoms than they ever would by providing a cure.

Lets take cold and flu remedies for example because the stats for that is more readily available in 2009 it was predicted that in the UK alone we would spend £521 million on over the counter remedies while in the US it was $2.5 billion if there's that much money just in those 2 countries imagine the world profit. Why peddle a cure where you could only make a fraction of that total profit and your shareholders lose out when you can keep your shareholder's happy and make a tidy profit.

I'm a firm believer that somewhere in a lab there are cures for cancer, flu, common cold but while there is a lot of money to be made on topical creams etc in the case of P until something changes I sadly cant see them letting us have it.

Sorry for being a bit negative and heading into Tin Foil hat territory. But i believe that until we as a race move forward and leave financial gain behind and start working toward the betterment of mankind as a whole, these cure's wont be in general circulation.