Simone Scully

If you live with asthma, you probably experience some common symptoms like wheezing, coughing, and shortness of breath. But what if you’re also dealing with back pain? It turns out your asthma and back pain might actually be related. Here’s what you…

More than 750,000 people in North America live with ulcerative colitis (UC), an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that causes inflammation of the lining of the large intestine. Most people with UC and other types of IBD are diagnosed between the…

Fecal transplants may become a future treatment for ulcerative colitis (UC), a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The procedure involves inserting stool from a donor into a recipient’s gastrointestinal (GI) tract to treat a condition or…

Your blood vessels expand in response to heat. That helps extra heat escape through your skin, which cools you down. When you’re exposed to a really hot environment and your blood vessels expand, they might leak some fluid into your soft tissues.…

If you have psoriatic arthritis you might dread shoe shopping. You’re not alone in this. With stiff ankles, swollen toes, peeling toenails, and tendon pain along the heels and soles of your feet, wearing a pair of uncomfortable or painful shoes can…

First you had to deal with red, flaky scales on your skin… now sore, swollen joints? Unfortunately, sometimes yes. If you’re one of the 7.4 million Americans who live with the inflammatory autoimmune disease psoriasis, then you’re at risk of…

Phone. Wallet. Keys… what else? When you’re taking on the world (or just catching up on your Netflix queue) and you have psoriatic arthritis, there are a few essentials you might want to have on you at all times. From meds and methods to alleviate…