Peerview Family Medicine & General Practice Cme/cne/cpe Audio Podcast

Go online to PeerView.com/XMX860 to view the activity, download slides and practice aids, and complete the post-test to earn credit. Psoriasis, a chronic inflammatory disease that affects up to 1 in 20 people worldwide, can drastically impact a patient's quality of life and health. The number of therapies for patients with moderate-to-severe psoriasis has grown steadily over the past 2 decades. Biologic immunotherapies have been the primary agents to gain approval, while small-molecule therapies have lagged in development. Deucravacitinib is a newly approved oral small molecule that inhibits the activity of TYK2, a member of the JAK family. Deucravacitinib allosterically inhibits TYK2 activity by binding to the regulatory domain rather than the catalytic domain. Binding in this way gives deucravacitinib greater specificity for TYK2 versus the closely related JAK1/2/3. Deucravacitinib has demonstrated safety and efficacy in moderate-to-severe chronic plaque psoriasis in two phase 3 pivotal trials (POETYK PSO-1