Top Boehringer In­gel­heim drug gets FDA ap­proval in rare skin dis­ease

For many pa­tients with gen­er­al­ized pus­tu­lar pso­ri­a­sis (GPP), the jour­ney to di­ag­no­sis could take years, as doc­tors can mis­take the in­cred­i­bly rare skin con­di­tion for an in­fec­tion. And when they do get di­ag­nosed, there are on­ly a few drugs — none of­fi­cial­ly ap­proved — they can use to man­age the painful flares that char­ac­ter­ize the dis­ease.

Boehringer In­gel­heim just got the green light to change that for US pa­tients.

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