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"The drugs  Enbrel, Remicade, Humira and Cimzia  work by suppressing 
the immune system to keep it from attacking the body. For patients with 
rheumatoid arthritis, the treatment provides relief from swollen and 
painful joints, but it's "a double-edged sword," said the FDA's Dr. 
Jeffrey Siegel. That's because the drugs also lower the body's defenses 
to various kinds of infections.
Siegel, who heads the office that oversees arthritis drugs, said the FDA 
became concerned after discovering information that doctors appeared to 
be overlooking a particular kind of fungal infection called 
histoplasmosis. Of 240 cases of the infection reported to the FDA, a 
total of 45 patients died  about 20 percent."
Susan"
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Oh frabjous day.
How about a *test* for this histoplasmosis - the advice for doctors to
treat the symptom aggressively with antifungals (if the patient is on
Enbrel et al) is no great thrill either - does anybody have any tests
specifically for antifungals and psoriasis?
(antifungals often work by interfering with vitamin D metabolism, ...)
J."
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Antifungals suppress and even completle shut down adrenal cortisol 
production.  It's not just histoplasmosis, it's immune function, period.
Disabling the functioning parts of the immune system just because you 
have profitable drugs that can do it is a bad policy when you realize 
that it's the HPA injury or disease that causes P and should be addressed.
Susan"
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