New treatments manage to "erase" the traces of severe psoriasis

Aug 10, 2014
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Updated: Mar 21

This autoimmune disease affects 3% of the population. Anyone hearing the before-and-after story of this administrator, a graduate of the "Federico Rivero Palacios Technological Institute," might make a joke about his doctor's last name: Mago=magician. As Reyes confirms, the improvement was almost magical. Mago, in her office at the "Vista Alegre Clinic" in Caracas, uses the most modern treatments for psoriasis: injectable biological therapy, available free of charge to patients with the most severe form of the disease and provided by the High-Cost Pharmacy of the Venezuelan Institute of Social Security (IVSS). “Our quality of life has increased 1,000%," he asserts.

Carlos José Reyes and Emérita Molina are living proof that this disease, with the available biological therapies—provided free of charge by the Venezuelan Social Security Institute at High-Cost Pharmacies—can disappear from the skin.